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1890. Phonograph - Automatic Phonograph Exhibition Company
(D-90-52)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
business of the Automatic Phonograph Exhibition Co., which was organized to
promote Edison’s coin-operated phonograph. Also included are documents
about the technical development of the coin-operated phonograph and about
the company’s lawsuit. against the North American Phonograph Co. Many of
the letters are by Felix Gottschalk, president of the company. Some of the
material may be partially illegible due to water damage.
Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been filmed. The
following categories of documents have not been filmed: letters of transmittal
and acknowledgement; routine business correspondence concerning stock
transfers and company meetings; duplicate copies of selected documents.
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Tel egr an received from Mr. Kdison.
3* Tate, Charlotte H. C. Fob. IS, 1890.
Find Louis Glass and have him see Major Hat on, who
Tri.ll give information about Choever and Gilliland.
Get a list of all Phonograph Companies and write
them that in the course of a month I shall be able
to furnish nickel in siot attachment at factory
prices, and they need not pay large price to out¬
side parties, if they desire such a device. See
Lippincott about this before you do so. This to
head off the Che over -Gilliland deal. Perhaps Lippin¬
cott has the right to prevent Cheever. If so, he
bettor do it, or there is trouble ahead for every¬
body.
32 D,i I S
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Dear Tate- New York City» February 17, 1890.
Did I tell you that Edison says he does not want his
name used in Cheever's Company? lie wants Gilliland's name*'
caken out altogether, but does not consent to have his own’
ased and prefers that it should not be. .
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Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, New Jersey.
Dear Sir:
Re A. P. E. Oo. We send you herewith, for your files,
original agreements, duly executed by all the parties, as follows i
(1) Agreement between Thomas A. Edison, Jesse H. Lippin-
cott, Thomas R. Lombard, -the North American Phonograph Company,
lewis Glass, Exploiting Company of California and Automatic Phono¬
graph Exhibition Company, for assigning inventions and patents
dated April 19th, 1890.
(3) Agreement between same parties ani Charles A. Oheev-
er and Felix Gottsohalk, for pooling the stock of the A.P.E.Oo.,
dated April 19th, 1890.
Kindly acknowledge the receipt of the same, and oblige,
Very truly yours,
f)P£C
PLEASE ADDRESS REPLY TO
16 & 18 BROAD STREET.
44 WAT, I, STREET,
York, . . SeptentoerSyd, JSft
A. 0. Tate, Esq,'
Edison laboratory .
Orange, n.J.
Dear Sir:-
X have yours of the 30th, with relation to the
size of the cabinet for the Nickle-in-the-slot, machine and the
question of accommodating the Edison Leland battery in by the cabin
/uh~-
X would o& liked to have sent your letter on to Mr.Gottschalk
but it is not of the character that i can very well send to him as
of course you have written it entirely to myself.
Would you please write me another letter setting forth the
whole matter and bearing in mind that t want to send the whole lets,
-ts~ *
ter on^the Niokle-in-the-slot Co.
I will take thid matter up in connection with the negotiations
for the Phonograph Works to go ahead making the apparatus.
Yours truly,
Z7
7TUT07WTKTIC PHONOGRAPH EXHIBITION CO.
13 PARK ROW,
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
. PMoMr...lO*h,._
I beg to inform, you that a certificate for 5500 shares
of the Automatic Phonograph Exhibition Company is at your disposal
as soon as you can call at the office and receipt for same.
This terminates the ppoling^^April 19th, 1890.
Respectf uLly ycrnrs ,
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Automatic Phonograph Exhibition Co.
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13 PARK ROW,
. October . 11th. .
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Mr. A. 0. Tate,
Orange, N. J.
My dear Mr. Tate
Referring to your enclosure of yesterday, I
am anxious to see both Mr. . Edison ,and; yourself ori: this and other'.'
matters connected with the automatic business, and ij£ convenient-/
please telephone Monday morning when it would suit ycta b«jBt '$o
see me at the Laboratory. ' Can got away Monday afterrioon'„or TuesC
day morning. .* K < ;r "j U * " r
Yours truly.
J, i eT* \ •
In regard to the manufacture of Nickel Slot,
attachments for use in connection with the phonograph, the agree¬
ment between the Automatic Phonograph Exhibition Company and the
Edison Phonograph Works , of the 19th of April, 1890, 5th section,
requires the Works to prepare a model at the expanse of the Auto¬
matic Company, according to the best judgment and skill of Thomas
A. Edison, together with a duplicate of the said modal.
The proper way for us to start under this agreement is to •;
carry out the obligation thus imposed and get a speedy decision
on a permanent model. We have no right to wait for the Automatic
Company to supply a model, and they liave absolutely no right to,
ask us to do so. It seems to me that Gilliland is taking advan¬
tage of this delay to manufacture as mary machines as he possibly
can. He has already made at least 300 in excess of the 500 which
we agreed he should make, and I believe ha is still delivering.
PTutomhtic Phonograph Exhibition Co.
13 PARK ROW,
•Personal »
A* 0* Tate, Esq.,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
Ootober 23rd, . ■/(?$&§
I herewith enolose to yon a statement from the ColnSMMl
Phonograph Co. from Sept. 1st to Oct. 15th, showing gross rece|ft§
#2608.51, out of whioh our Oonpany receive only as our share tf
the net profit during the six weeks #219.65.
i also enolose you a statement of the batteries owned jointly
by the Automatic Company and Old Dominion Company, 189 storage
batteries costing #2043. You will understand that our Company
own one half of these batteries, and that Mr. Edison is interested
to the extent of one quarter of what we own.
I also enclose you a letter dated Oct. 8th, in reference to
nmsioal cylinders, and a circular sent by the Hartford Model 0o»
to the various looal Phonograph Companies offering to furnish
Automatic Slot machines. After a careful perusal of these papers
would you kindly hand them to Mr. Edison and call his attention
to these matters. As he is the largest personal stockholder, Z
think it is no more than right, that Mr. Edison should assist US
to the fullest extent possible in asserting our rights in these
various matt era and bring them to a head as quickly as possiMs*
A. 0. T. (S)
Alloir ms to suggest to you that an automatic register, or
bell attached to a set of your batteries by which the user could
be informed when about the battery is giving out,, say within five '
hours, would greatly enhanse the value of your battery, I
should think Mr. Bdison would have no difficulty in invent i**
a devioe of this kind for you.
Any time you are in the city we wish you would take the tg|f$
to call in and see us.
Respectfully yourB,
[ENCLOSURE]
MONTHLY STATEMENT. Sept. 1st, to Oct. 15,90#
COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH ' COMPANY,
in" account with,
AUTOMATIC PHONOGRAPH EXHIBITION COMPANY.
OR.
DR.
months rental Phonograph at $40. per annum.
ToiMisc. Expenses including music. . " $795.21
. " Placing and caring for machines. ' “ 705.96
. " Commissions. ’ 268.81
• Batteries, ' ; 247. S3
TbtalyAm't of. expenses to Oct. 15th, $2074.31
2606.51
2074.31
2 j 532.20
266.10 due each Qp
46.45 freight
due Automatic Co. 219.65“
1/2 Net Profit to Auto. Phono. Ex. Co.
l/2 Net Profit to Phonograph Co.
Us*. :
Total receipt^ to Oct, 15, ,1890.
$219.65
$260.10
[ENCLOSURE]
(COPY)
ROANOKE, VIRGINIA. ,
OCTOBER 18, 1890.
STATEMENT 03? BATTERIES CHARGED TO AUTOMATIC ACCOUNT BY
THE; OLD DOMINION PHONOGRAPH COMPANY, to OCTOBER, lBt, 1890.
« 16
. 16
.'141
Style Oapaoity.
• Punpelly . 240 Anp. lira.
. Punipelly V 190 Anp. hrs.
.' Punpelly .150 anip. hra.
• Anglo-Am. » .300 amp. lira.
V Anglo-Am. . 300 amp . lira •
. Potaah .
Price
$12.50
11.50
10.50
11.00
. 10.50
12.50
Ooat .'
• 200.00
V 184.00
i 1480.50
. , 11.00
. il05?00
• _ ^ 62.50
[ENCLOSURE]
- Cer*
THE
HARTFORD MODEL COMPANY.
Manufacturers of the
Hartford Model Hiokol-in-thc-Slot
Attachments for Phonographs.1-
Hartford, Conn.
■ -Hartford, Conn'.Sopt .80,00.
Minnesota Phonograph Co. “ ,, ;i
Minneapolis, Minn. | » 15*
•Gentlemen:- * & £ ■'* £ “ V
Wo desire to call your.rattentfon to the “Hartford
i Model." nick el-in-the-slot attachment, manufactured"- by ‘this' Com¬
pany for iis e with the phonograph v jjf / f'. ~ e
This attachment is simple in cons ^Sniot'l on“ purely, automatic
in action, is compact, neat,; and reliable, lit requires' no pre—
■ paratory change or alteration in the phonograph arid can be attach¬
ed or removed in the space .qf a few? minutes and with but little
trouble . It is entirely mechanical’ in its! act ion fusing no
oleotro-magnots or- delicate,, adjustments, wj-ill /serve tpr any • ,
length of cylinder, is nicely nickel plate’d arid makes'^ beauti¬
ful and attractive addition to the Phonograph., All that as nec¬
essary to operate the mechanism islithe dropping of a nickel in
the tube- the attachment 'and phonograph do the • rest . ;?The£ act •) on
of t.ho attachment is also plainly seen, which ^contfi but esc' mater¬
ially to the interest and consequent profits of the automatic
phonograph. The nickel arrangement is unusually prompt, reliable
and satisfactory and the combination makes the simplest and best
,■ attachment of the kind now on the market .
We are prepared to make contracts i^ith your company for the
uf? of .Model" on the most advantageous terms. 'W@‘
will rent or- sell you -the machines, or, if you prefer, will take
charge of the. business in your territory, leasing phonographs from
your company on such terms1 as may be agreed upon. Wo require no
exclusive contraot and make no extortionate demands and we be-
— •7? 1'® oonpfmy can derive a great, er profit from, this phase
wavth0' bll°in0SS by th° US® °f °lU> Rttacl™ents than ' in ' any- other
idle profitable nature of the business is probably already
known to you and wo should be pleased to assist you in its de-
I?/0™' torritory- If!?™ have as yet, made no con-
1™°** °f this nature 'we will submit for your consideration our
methods of work. i.
Hoping to “hoar from you at an early date, we remain,
Respectfully,
Hartford Model Co.
, , , Hugh R. Conyngton,
. ^ Secretary.
Mutomhtic Phonogrhph Exhibition Co.
Mr* Thomas
Orange, N. J,
Dear SirJ-
13 PARK
d 1
A. Edison,
October 25th, . Sty 3 *
We are now testing an improved Automatic Slot
ine in connection with the Phonograph, and during this coming weofc
expect to have another model which we will also test* As sooft 3$
our Company have decided upon the standard he oh ine we think mH|f
able to put out in use, we will see that you have a model fljf $$$
same without delay*
In the meantime, we understand you are experimenting in th$£
direction on your own account, and would kindly request you t£
bear in mind the:, fact, that we have about 750 oabineta not negflg
and about 250 under way making about 1000 all told; and if ygg gj ft
possibly do so, we wish that any experimenta you make in thin
may be -made in view of using the oabineta we now have out in tfllOf
a sample of which you have in your factory*
Respectfully yours.
Automatic Phonograph Exhibition Co.
.?■
Mr* Thomas A* Edison
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
PARK ROW,
. Qctofaeracth, . Scffint
ited to and transcribe
Enclosed please find copy of a oircular letter unde#
date of Ootober 24th from the Hartford Model Company, alBo oopy
of letter from the Nebraska Phonograph Company, whfoh we presume
have been sent to all the local Phonograph Companies*
We are convinced that circulars of this description will
do our Company harm in many ways, and steps ought to be taken
to counteract the effeots of this circular* ?
Respectfully yours.
[ENCLOSURE]
(COPY)
THE '
HARTFORD MODEL COMPANY.
Hartford, Conn.,' 'OotV 24, 1800.
Gentlemen:- . o
Hearing that you had aTlreacfy nt-ide a contract for
machines, we did not expect to hear from you. We' sliali Boon have ‘
men on the road with machines and will- give'- yoir an 'opportiniity of
Judging of their merits. ■"'l’ •> • c--.'.
The Directors have decided to sell ihb'machinbs ^itright;1" ’ -
cash on delivery, thus avoiding the many' 'coc* lio&Jbns 'and "obnox- '
ious1 obligations incident to renting*' aividi'ng'i?rofits, !btc^l>' ;
We can easily shov; t int our machines' are the simplest and '
best, and hope soon to give you a practical demonstration of t iks t
Yours truly, '
(signed) Hartford Model Co.
[ENCLOSURE]
(COPY)
THE NEBRASKA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY.
Omaha, Nob. Oct. J34, 1800.
I herewith enclose you photographs of a multiple-tube
attachment for the nickel-in-th e-slot . The photographs show two
tubes. Three, four or more may be used, but probably two tubes in
addition to the one already used would be ampler Photograph No. 1
Shows the air tight valves closed, so no sound at all is conveyed
through the tubes. No. B. shows. the valves open ready for two
persons to listen. 'A nickel passing through the slot opens the
valve. It requires one nickel to open oaoh 'valve. The valves
are closed by the carriage as it returns, it is exceedingly sim¬
ple and a sure worker, and it can be placed on any nickel-in-tho-
slot machine. It is held in placo by body screw of phonograph.
It is thought that this device will double the earnings of
the nickol-in-the-slot phonograph. It is proposed to furnish
this device complete (two tubes); for five cents per day, or §1.50
per month, payable monthly, contract to continue for one year.
Ordors can bo filled in about twenty or thirty days. We will bo
glad to receive your order for as many as you think you can use to
advantage.
Yours truly,
(signed) E. A. Benson,
, 0.
||i ill iillljp
* HUJOMHTIC PHONOGRHPH EXHIBITION CO.
13 PARK ROW,
Mr. A. o. Tate,
. . Npve^er gjpd, _ .
Herewith I hand you the number of machines in ope:
ation held by the respective Phonograph Companies:- ;;
New York Phonograph Company 140 mchines
Hew England Phonograph Company 60
Hew Jersey Phonograph Company .45 *
Old Dominion Phonograph Company 139 ■ Vy
.Columbia Phonograph Company 136 * \
Ohio Phonograph Company 05 •
Georgia Phonograph Company . ;« ,17'- ■ §
Kentucky Phonograph Company '40 ' * ^ \
Florida Phonograph Company ' /$£. •
Minnesota Phonograph Company 25 *
Montana Phonograph Company 25 »
Alabama Phonograph Company 39 _
Yours truly,
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KUT07CHTIC PH0NOGR7TPH PyHiRTTimiM
Unless' you hear . to the contrary from me you may expeot
at the Laboratory next Wednesday afternoon about 2 o’olook. We
are rushing the working model of the iuproved . Slot attachment,
and I hope to ship the same to you some day this coming week.
7/e have the multiple tube machine of Mr. Glass at our office .
This is an automatic four-way tube machine working electrically
by simply dropping a nickel in the slot. If the sane can be„ of
any service to Mr. Edison, in case he contemplates raking an
automatic machine, I am sure our Company would only be too glad"
to ship the same to your Works.
Yours truly,
Automatic Phonograph Exhibition Co.
13 PARK ROW,
. .N.Q.Ye.Pib.e.g.....3,.g.t.b.4
Mr. A. 0. Tate,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir!- < • »
We are in receipt of yoitr telegram as followsj-
"Please send oabinets to Laboratory by express to-day sure®, mid
beg to say, that the oabinets will be shipped ^by express to-day
or to-morrow. ■
Res dur s.
Enclosed please find Minutes of the last Trustees'
meeting duly signed by the Commodore and myself. Would you kindly
look over the same and if correct, send them with a few lines ' to
Mr. Insull and secure his signature and have him return the same
to me. As he was not present at the last meeting and you were
his substitute, I think it best to have him sign the Minutes
of the proceeding.
You no doubt received a circular from Mr. Price regarding
the lecture on Thursday evening next at the Electric Club to be .
delivered by Professor Hioolls of Cornell University on the
"Artificial Light of the Future! As this promises to be a very
interesting lecture and no doubt would be worth listening to, I
thought perhaps you might find time to come over 'if you have noth¬
ing better to do. If so, I will meet you Thursday evening, art
we can have that promised dinner together, at the Club and then
listen to the lecture* Perhaps if Mr.. Edison has nothing better
to do he might join yotm.
I expect a woricing model of the new attadhirent by Thursdayor
Friday, so in case you can find time to oome over here Thursday
tov/ards evening, I may be able to shew it to you. I intend bring-
ing the same to the Faotory by the end of this wdel^ if Mr.
Edison iB at home. By. that time probably the Niak el-in-the-Slot
machine which he is new constructing may be ready.
Edison General Electric Co.
OFFICE OF SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT.
CONFIRMATION OF MESSAGE.
1,1 Mould be checked with the original n
Xante of Pet-eon Receiving.
Miss .Main s 11,.
. 1 1/20 .
From whom received.
To whom sent.
Mr A. 0. Tate, Labratory.
Mr Samuel Insull, Secorid Vice President .
X sent yesterday , to the Nickel & Slot Company, the
following letter
11 Dear Sir:- Referring to the contract between us,
dated the I9th day of April, 1890, and more particularly to the
5th section thereof, X hereby notify you that Ihave made a complet
model Slot machine and a duplicate of the same, which is to be
known as the Standard Slot Machine Phonograph,
I am prepared now to carry out all the provisions, of
this arrangement pertaining to manufactures.
The fith section provides for delivery at a rate not
to exceed 15 machines per day , to be regulated from time to
time upon 30 days notice .
Please advise me where to deliver your duplicate model V
Yours truly,
( Signed ) Thomas AEDISON"
Mr Gotts chalk is with me now inspecting the new model,
In regard to PhonograpWks letter to North American Company I
o sign.
will S(
Eaton and obtai'
draft of letti
for you ti
&sjJc'r-rj-4-tC
cJ&uM^<mA November 21st. 1890.
My dear Sir :
1 am in receipt of your favor of yesterday, sug¬
gesting that during the absence of Mr. Lippincott I shall act as
E DireCt0r °f The Automatic Phonograph Exhibition Company, and in
reply would say that I shall have no objection to assuming the du¬
ties, provided such an arrangement meets with the approval of Mr
Lippincott. I will confer with him on the subject and write you
further in a day or two.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, N, J.
/•’/pM) &t-i . '"V*-
Dictated.
November S5th. 1890,
My dear Sir :
Further replying to your favor of November 20th, on
the subject of myj arranging to have myself elected as a Director
of the Automatic Phonograph Exhibition Co., would say that I am in¬
formed by Mr. Idppincott that he will be very glad to have me join
the Board to fill the vacancy now existing and for which it is un¬
derstood he is to nominate a candidate. He seems to think that,
upon this being done,it will not be necessary for his resignatiol
to be tendered.
Mr. Lipp'incott will at once transfer to my name 100
shares of the stock of;, the Company and when this’ is done I shall
be qualified for election, if you approve. «
' Yourfl veyj truly , ?'
Thomas A. Edison^ Esq.,
Orange, N. J,.y
Referring to the tender of the Automatic Maohine made to
this Company last week by you, we would ask if the invention of
Mr. J. F. ott of Orange, N. J. is the one you intend using in
connection with, the* phonograph, and if this invention is the one.
that you tender to this. Company* In other words whether Mr.'.
Ott '8 application belongs i o the Automatic Company or' not. $9 5 >"
need this information so as to. know how to file our answer re-
garding the interference of Mr'. Ott with several of the appli- *
cations owned by this Company. •; S 1 •/
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Dear Sir: '
. Re Parents and Applications of Automatic Phonograph
Exhibition Company. Enclosed please find a carbon copy of mv re¬
port of the 1st inst. to this Company on the present status of theii
patents and applications.
I call your attention particularly to what I say
about John Ott near the middle of page eight.
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this rep_.
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it, and oblige,
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Hesr York City, Decenber 1st, 1890.
Automatic Phonograph Exhibition Company,
Felix Gottsohalk, Esq., President.
Dear Sir:
Re Pending Applications for Patents and Patents and Assign¬
ments thereof to you.
I bog to submit for your information the following statement
of how these things now stand:
(1) on October 15, 1890, I sent to the Patent Office for re¬
cord, assigments from the Exploiting Company to you, of patent Nos.
438,750 and 428,751, and of application for patents of Glass and
Arnold, filed Feb. 15, 1890, serial No. 340,027, for joint inven¬
tion for Numis Motor Phongraphs, On October 25, 1890, I received
from the Patent Office notice that these assignments had been re¬
ceived, and that they would be recorded in due course. No doubt
the Patent Office will return the said assignments to me within
the next week or so. But you can consider the assignments as hav¬
ing boon duly recorded as of the date when they were received by
the Patent Office.
(24 In. addition to the above two patents and one application,
you are interested in three other applications, as follows:
(a) S. H. $40,687, joint invention of James F. Gilliland and
A. K. Keller, application for patent filed in the Patent Office
Fob. 17, 1890. This invention, the whole of it, was originally
assigned by tbSse two joint 4nve3K&nB, to Ezra T. Gilliland on Jan
31, 1890, which was before the application was filed. Th>v*tt|fcd
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Gilliland on Fab. 10, 1890, assigned the whole of the same to you,
which was done sIbo before the application was filed. Under the
rules of the Patent Office the aforesaid two assignments c-ould not
be recorded, because they failed to state the date of the filing
of the application. In fact the application was filed after the
assignment of the invention. In order to cure this defect, a new
assignment ( to take the place of the old one made on Jan. 31,1890,
as aforesaid) was made by James F. Gilliland and Albert K. Keller
to Ezra T. Gilliland, by written instrument dated November 11, 1890.
Unider dA"tO“ of Nov. 14, 1890, the said Ezra T. Gilliland made ah new
assignment ( to tako^he^ place of the aforesaid assignment of Feb.
10, 1890) to you. Hte^two last named assignments are now in my
possession, and I shall forward them at once to the Patent Offico
for record, viz: Assignment a of Nov. 11, 1890, from James P. Gilli¬
land and Albert K. Keller to Ezra T. Gilliland and Assignment of
Nov. 14, 1890, from Ezra T. Gilliland to you, both assignments re¬
lating to serial No. 340,687. This will give you a complete title
to the whole of these applications and will result in the patents
when thoy are allowed, boing issued to you, as assignee of the in¬
ventors.
£/v Wojjr
(b* S&M52S& invention of Ezra T. Gilliland relating to im¬
provements in automatic locking and releasing devices. This applfc
cation has been allowed and Mr. Kiddle is about sending final fee
to the Patent Office in order that the patent may! isSue at Once.
This assignment was originally made for the whole of the invention,
by instrument dated Eeb. 10, 1890, but in consequence of the date
of the application not having been mentioned in that assignment,
because the application was really filed after the application was
made, a new assignment has been executed by Mr. Gilliland under
^at0 of * 1890 Mr* Kiddle will forward this assigment, to the
tot
Patent Office at once, when he sends the final fee as aforesaid.
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•« =x latesta-dine Of the tatter 1. ,tot the p.teht .in ierao
in your name aB assignee of the said Gilliland.
Sp-j-
(c) S.N. U&ppps., application for patent filed March 6, 1890,
joint invention of Prank W. Toppan and K^ra T. Gilliland, for
attachments for automatically operating phonographs. The said
Toppan owned one half of this invention, and the said Gilliland
owned the other half. The latter half was sold by Mr. Gilliland
to the North American Phonograph Company, which, X believe, owns it,
and holds the title to it. The said half of Mr. Toppan wan ass¬
igned to you by instrument dated Feb . 10, 1890, now in mjV possess¬
ion, but inasmuch as this instrument does not contain date of fil¬
ing application, Which was really at a X^date, March 6, 1890,
a new assignment must be made by Mr. Toppan to you. This document
has been drawn and is now held by Mr. Kiddle awaiting Mr. Toppan's
return from Europe when he will execute it and it will then be. re¬
corded. i should here state that as regards this assignment and
the one mentioned above, wherein the dates of filing applications
were omitted, the assignments themselves are valid in law notwith¬
standing said omissions, but they cannot be recorded in the Patent
Office owing to its peculiar rules. This is a matter which merely
relates tp convenience of record but does not Effect the validity
and legal force of the assignments themselves.
(8) So far as I know, your present interests in patents a«l
and pending applications are limited to the applications mentioned
*ove in subdivision (2, and to the two patents and one application
mentioned above in subdivision (1). But in saying this * shall,
put in a saving clause as regards subdivision (1), viz: that owing
to my lack of eft definite information touching the applications of
Glass and Arnold, I am in some doubt whether their applications to
which you are entitled, were five in a-. ^
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But I boliovo that the latter is the fact. To the best of my in¬
formation, Glass and Arnold made three applications for patents,
to wit: S.N. 334,196, filed Decontoer 18, 1889; S.1T. 339,069, filed
Fob. 3, 1890; and S.N. 340,627 filed Feb. 15, 1890. These throe
of the30 applications all became your property. On the first tvfo^
patents havo been granted. On the last' application no patents has
yet boon allowed . Does this agroo with your understanding? 1 Ke-
Jlur*-
fee? 1„ it is so.
(4) Referring now to the last named application of Fob. 15,
1890, S.N. 340,627, of Glass and Arnold for inventions for Numis
Motor Phonographs, that application has been put in interference
with the aforosaid application of Ezra T. Gilliland and Frank W.
Toppan for attachments for automatically operating phonographs S.N.
342,875, filed March 6, 1890.
As regards the said application of Gilliland and Keller No.
340,687, three interferences were declared last week, viz. Inter¬
ference No. 14,846 with H.R. and T. Conyngton of Gal vest an and H.
Hooschen of Omaha, to an electric oirouit for operating phonographs
normally open at two points and closed by the contact of a coin;
interference No. 14,847, with the aforosaid Conyngtons, relating
to moans for breaking the electric oircdit at the end of the move¬
ment; and interference No. 14,848, withW. S. Burnett, relating to
mechanisms for starting and stopping the motor and for a lifting
devioe for the arm.
As regards the said application of Gilliland and Toppan, S.N.
342; 875, three interferences were declared last week, viz: Inter¬
ference No. 14,625 with Glass and Arnold, relating to means for
holding up and lowering the arm; interference No. 14,842^8Rjf&^S:.,
Clark of Pittsburgh and E. E. Flora of Chicago, and Glass and
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Arnold, for means for raising tho arm; and interference Mo. 14,844,
with John Ott, of Orange, relating to the raised position of the
arm and tripping devices.
(5) Referring again to tho interference mentioned above in
the first part of subdivision (4), viz: interference between S.N.
340,627 of Glass and Arnold and S.N. 342,875 of K. T. Gilliland and
Toppan, there is a question still open which needs attention. Tho
subject mattor of this interference is this:
A phonograph comprising a box or case, a phonogram cylinder
mounted thereupon, a reproducer, a feed and return mechanism for
said reproducer, an armature, eccentrically connected v/ith said
food and return mechanism, and a magnet acting upon said armature
and adapted to automatically and alternately reverse said mechanism
Tho Patent Office holds that tho foregoing issue is covered
by all of the twelve claims of the Gilliland and Toppan application,
but by only the first of the fourteen claims of the Glass and Arn¬
old application. Both applications are now owned toy. the same party
except as regards certain pacific coast territory. That toeing so,
the subject matter in interference can be by consent erased from
either one of the two applications if it be desirable to dispose of
tho subject in that way, although it should not be erased from the
former application because all of the twelve claims thereof would
bo affected. If an erasure be made, it from the Glass
and Arnold application, because only the' first of its fourteen
claims would be affected.
Why get rid of tho interference by erasure? ^hy not let
both parties to the interference file sworn preliminary staten^nts
acting up dates of invention, and then let the Patent Office award
priority? This last course, is open to the objection that tho
actual dates of iwontion would become a matter a-r _ ,,
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in tho Patent Office, and we might possibly have reason to regret
much publicity, in the fhturo.
TOiy not have both parties to this interference prepare their
final statements, setting forth the actual dates of invention, and
lot us then, without filing tho said affidavits in the Patent Office^
ourselves award, so to speak, priority to tho earlier inventor?It
seems to me that this is tho best course, because it provides us
with a sworn statement of the actual dates of the inventions, which
ttay be of value to us at some fhturo time in the event of litigat¬
ion with infringers. Wo have asked Glass and Arnold to supply us
with this affidavit, but they are unwilling to do so. They prefer
that wo should settle this interference by erasure, by consent, as
mentioned above. for some reason they do not wish to puton paper
the dato of their invention, and swear to it. Possibly their
arrangements with the Exploiting Company^ as aforesaid provedsit to
be less remote than was expected. Be that as it nay, they have
thus far boon unwilling to make the affidavit. They must now,
however, realize that an affidavit must be made, in consequence ofa
interference No. 14,842, mentioned above at the top of page 5. The
parties ;io that interference aro beyond our control, so an affida¬
vit must bo made by Glass and Arnold or tho invention will be lost
to us by default. '
In view of the above, I now recommend that yam write to Glass
and Arnold and insist upon their preparing and sending t<rryou, the
usual sworn statement called for by the ruleB of the Patent Office,
as regards interference No. 14,625; also t hat -
enbioNo. 14,842, they be asked to do the same. No. time should be
lOBt in attending to this, 'As regards tho said Interference No.
14,625, wo do not want from thorn a concession of priority of iiivon
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tion, nor an abandonment either by erasure or by formal instrument,
nor a disclaimer either by erasing old matter or by inserting new,
but what we do want, and should insist on, is a formal sworn state¬
ment getting forth the actual date of invention, as customary in
such cases. Will you kindly attend to that at pnoe, or . instruct
mo to?
I should here state that Mr. Kiddle has given me a lengthy
opinion on this subject prepared by him, dated Nov. 14,1890, which
1 shall file away for future reference.
(6) Referring again to the question of recording in the Patent
Office the two patents and four applications discussed above in
this pardonj^for rapaating j ^f^aa.i^ata
you of the two patents and the one application, of Blass and Arnold
are already filed for record in the Patent Office; that the assign¬
ments of two other applications are in my hands and will be sent to
the Patent Office for record today; and that the remaining appli¬
cations, No. S.N. 340,775, of E. T. Gilliland will be at once sent
to the Patent Office by Mr. Kiddle. Please also let me again state
that as regards S.N. 342,875, of Toppan and K. T. Gilliland, the
interest of the latter is owned by the North American Phonograph
Company, , Should not that Company bo asked to formerly transfer
it to you, without further consideration? Referring^ theiafore-
aaid Interference No. 14,844, with John Ott, would it not be well
for you to ascertain whether or not arrangements can be made with
him for mutual benefit touching the object matter in this Inter¬
ference?
(7) Regarding English Letters Patent No. 17, 937, of 1888, for
-Improvements in-Mao, hines for Reproducing Sound and Methods fbr
Advertising by the same-, I have read Mr. Kiddle’s opinion of April
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-8-
Has proper attention been given in your interest to Mr. Kiddle'
recommendation, viz: that it would be well for ym to procure this
patent so as not to have out standing perhaps in the possession of
a competitor any patent upon which to base a colorrof right to the
ownership of inventions covered by the patents and applications now
belonging to you?
Is not the time come for you to adopt my recent suggestion
that all of your patents and inventions be submitted to a first
class export for a thorough examination and report? Those patents
and applications recited by mo at length in this letter, the said
English Patent, the proposed new machine about to be constructed
by Mr. Gilliland and containing his recent inventions, and the var¬
ious applications of other inventors as shown by the recent In£?r-
feronces mentioned above, all const in my ju&nent,
for you to call in tho advice of the best mechanical expert at com¬
mand. Your business is worth protecting, and tlie expense would nPt
be heavy.
(8) Please excuse tho length of this report, but I feel that
the subject merits full consideration, to the end that you may
clearly understand just what is the present condition of your
patent matters.
Hoping it will be satisfactory, I remain,
Very truly yours,
(Signed) SV B. Eaton.
" C]rs
Hutomhtic Phonogrhph Exhibition Co.
13 PARK ROW,
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Laboratory, Orange , N. J,
Dear SirJ-
. Doo.eraber....3rd,, . . /eft? 0
In reply to your favor- of the 2nd inst just received,
we beg to state, that our letter of November 21st must have boon
overlooked by you, and we therefore beg to enclose you copy of the
same. ' , ’ .
On receipt of your favor of the 19th inst the writer visit¬
ed the , Laboratory , and was sham the nachine which you had ten¬
dered our Company; and the letter of November 21st to you 1b the
personal views of dir President. We hardly think that any por¬
tion of, that, letter can be misconstrued, in other words, we do
not in any way desire to curt ail your privileges under your con¬
tract, on the contrary it is the unanimous desire of every impor¬
tant stockholder, that this, business should be conducted at your
workB as speedily as possiftle, andVthe fact of this not being done
is not our fault. -
In reference to our letter of the 28th regarding Mr. J. F» -
ott *b invention, this is ptirely a technical letter regarding in¬
ventions, as we certainly must know how to treat this natter, and
for that reason desired the information we asked of you*
Respectfully yours.
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(copy)
November 21st, 1890.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
We are in receipt of .your favor of the 10th inst, noti
fying us that you have a complete model Slot maohine and duplicate
which is to be known as the "Standard Slot Maohine Phonograph"*
furthermore that you are prepared to carry out the various provis¬
ions of the Agreement. Your letter will be referred to the Board
of Trustees and in due time you will receive answer to the same*
In the meantime, our President saw the Slot nachine at the
laboratory and begs to say, that he does not think that our Com¬
pany can Accept the same as the Standard Machine, or- in fact that
it can be of any use to our Company, inasmuch as the various local
Phonograph Companies with whom we have contracts oannot use this
Slot attachment with the phonographs in their possession, as the
model is useful only -with the old style spectical nachine with a
return screw, and none of our Companies have any of these naohines
in their possession. ; You are aware that our Company does not
furnish the phonograph, but only the Slot attachment and cabinet,
the Phonograph Companies furnishing the phonographs themselves,
unless therefore some arrangement can be made by whioh the local
Companies are put in possession of these phonographs and we are
allowed to furnish Slot attachments for these old style machines
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(2)
the model will be, of no use to our Company “I think the Board
of Trustees will have the same views on the subject, but you will
hear from us again after the next Board meeting.
• Respectfully yours,
(Signed) Felix Gotts chalk.
President*
The above is official, but personally I am anxious to see Mr.
Edison on his return as early as possible, and consult as to
the hest mode of bringing the above to some practical business
issue, and also desire to confer with him regarding the general
Phonograph and Slot business.
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SAMUEL I N S UJLL
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A. 0. Tate, Esq. , Private Secretary,
Edison Laboratory,
Orange.N.J .
December 22ndi,I8cjO.
Dear Sir:-
I have yoursof the I8th,wlth relation to the
Automatic Phonograph Exhibition Company.
I was not present at any meeting held- authorising
the officers of the Company to commence suit against the North
American Company. No such meeting fias been held.
1 have seen Mr. Edison on this subject*. and explained
the whole matter to him, and we have decided to do nothing whatever
at the moment. I think that the action of the Automatic Company
puts us in a position where we must adopt a neutral position.
I have no intention of attending any meetings that
they may call of tke Board, aB I do not want to be in cnjr way ijivol-t
ved,and do not want to involve Mr. Edison's interests in -any Way in
the controversy in question, I think that the action of the Aut-
omatic Company is very ill-advised and eventually they must be
beaten. .
The worse that can possibly be dofte^is to teH .thei
North American Company to sell Phonographs subjeot tp the .exhibi¬
tion rights of the Automatic Company. *
Yours very truly , J?
No Enc.
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Copy of letter from T. R, Lombard to Capt. J, L. Inglia.
Deo. 18th, 1890.
John L. Inglis, Esq.
Pres't Georgia Phonograph Co.
Dear Sir:-
Objeotions have been made by one of the officers
of a local Company to the sale of machines, he giving as his
reasons the following: -
First:- That by so doing outside parties are enabled
to purchase phonographs and apply them to Nickel-in-the-Slot
devices.
Second:- That there will be difficulty in preserving
the territorial rights of the different companies, and there would
be a liability of one Company selling machines to go into the
territory of another*
As these two objections appear at the first glance to be
serious, I desire to give my opinion on the subject for youroare-
ful consideration.
In the first place, I will take up the question of the
desirability of the nickel— in— the-slot business. -
It is a question to my mind, if that business is either
beneficial to the enterprise in general, or is as profitable as at
first appearanoe it appears to be. it is -true that in some sec¬
tions under the most favorable circumstances, and with careful •
superintendence of an inspector staying with -a number of machines,
so as to keep them in good order, frequent changes of records, etc,
the profits have apparently been very satisfactory. But it would -
be eminently unfair for us to apply the experience of one locals
ity to the whole country. As far as I can. learn it seems a mooted
question in many sections, whether the nickel-in-the -slot business
does more than hold its own, In some sections it is believed to
be an expense rather than a profit. Personally, I. do. not believe
in a large profit to be derived from that branch, although I
think that carefully conducted and with a perfectly automatic
device, it might be made a source of revenue. Aside from- the
^ever, I am convinced that it injures the general -enter¬
prise by lowering the estimation in which the machines should
be held; giving wrong impressions to people, who see them-only
under these conditions. However, as this is merely my personal
opinion, I will take it for granted that the business is both pro¬
fitable and desirable, and argue mainly from that basis and en- . •
deavor to show that the sales of machines will not interfere to
any serious degree with the control of the slot business of the
local Company.
It is a well authenticated fact, that ho business will
prosper that is not thoroughly organized,- I doubt if to-day capi¬
tal could be engaged for the purpose of going into the placing of .
phonographs with a nickel-in-the-slot device in opposition to the
local Company controlling the territory in which they were to oper¬
ate, as they would be entirely subject to that local Company -with ■
the very ammunition with which to fight them, in the first place,
have to purchase their phonographs from that company,
buy all their blanks, go to them for repairs on maohines, .etc,* to a?*
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disheartening at the outset, and even were
wo^d U not b9 source of more revenue to the local
as S woS^1 Vh0y if1 th® rnaohinea thans elves, being freed
It SS irl b® ^om all personal care or expense-in the matter.2
0 8, ™0 ha individuals might here and there own nickel-in-the
thiL if thev did r?+Ur that if in the main U would b« a. bad
f di?\ ^S,it is novr* i^ing the Not York Company for
1 ^“kei-in-the-slot business is almost exclusively
“1? and about the City of New York, and they find it only
gather witl^a8!^0^’ ^ 0an place a numbar of mehinwa-toi -
ofmZhTv;!! f in charge to care for them, or having a number--
of machines in so small a radius as to enable one man to look after
and care for a number. They are thus debarred from covering their
territory of the whole State of New York, containing as it dost,
upwards of four millions of people exclusive of New York City.
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erd Zn* ;Vhat appliee *° th«m applies to every local company
and even more especially to those companies like the Texas Z»nLn
Colorado, Utah art others, whose territory is so large Sat Sv ’
^\PrV$*bly °anVaSB -1* exclusive rental system y '
which heretofore has been the policy of this Company. !
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pany will be required to comply with all +bf^* ?/^nd eaoh Com" '
contract, among which will h« S^1 ?h conditions of the •
tory controlled by them, orough canvassing of the terri-
anything ■*'■*** d°**
to these are those companies1whobhaJetinitheiri+°eS,-*The exosPtions
cities where they have been able +n ?i*i territory large .
not probably in the whole Uni+0d *°Plao® agencies. There are
engaged exclusively in the business of ?ihtrddhPften^ -VaSa0r?
to merchants and others Tho v-0<. * introducing these machines
Companies are entirely unaSe " ^ ^ is that'the local
class of men, such as are to-dav a V °OIl™Msion to attract that
ing type-writers, sewing-machines, ftf! *" introducing and sell-
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ing machines and keening thom i1 paya hira the °°st of plao-
around this by charging Viarge rent^l"^^ Si C°mpanies ^gotten
storage batteries, etc. This is If? appliances, euch as'
tised upon the party leasing +ho & dlrect deception prac-
« -pint o?*s; .oa‘s,:h;h?4nrfLrLJs *is° “
more and no less shall h» +v,« * , say that ?40» a year, no
that leases a machine and doe 3*00+ & 0f.tfhe "^ok*310* Any Company
rental is $40.“ear 2 ™ ?P!°ify ln the lea8a that the
lump sum of $60, more or less fnr’+?Ut °nufha oontpary makes a
is in my opinion violating that sectiolT^ih itS ^liances
refers to the leasing of^aSnes! ^ °0ntraot Whidh
bring intoIfhf8trLsufyio? machine sold will each year
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of supplies, making of repairs, etc, than would the iraohine leased.
It is natural for a party owning a thing to be more interested
in it, than if it does not belong to him, and he will make invest¬
ments for appliances for that machine, having the ownership, far
more readily than he will for a leased article. Therefore the
sale of cabinets, musical records and the repair bills will in my
opinion aggregate more profit, as I stated before, than the profits
from the receipts from rentals. Furthermore, each owner of a
machine is made your well wisher. If he owns a machine, he will,
notwithstanding that at first he may have trouble in using it,
persist in its use, until he makes himself familiar with it* which
when once done will wed him to it so thoroughly as to make him
your enthusiastic endorser. On the contrary, however, a man who
leases the machine is disheartened often by the first failure,
and will not trouble himself to learn the UBe of the machine, but
prefers to lose his first quarter's rental, tells you to take it
out of his office and becomes a skeptic and in many instances your
With the sale system an era of prosperity opens for all
the companies who will see their advantage and push their business
to the utmost, and I predict that at the end of the year 1S91
there will be but one universal opinion, and that will be that the
selling system was adopted none to soon.
While this letter is entirely unofficial, setting forth
as it does my personal opinions and conclusions I have come to from
my experience in the phonograph business, yet I am convinced that
they are fully concurred by each member of the Board of Directors
of this Company,
I submit the same in the hopes, that you will find some
thoughts which will merit your careful consideration.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) Thos. R*. Lombard.
[ATTACHMENT]
(COPY)
THE OLD DOMINION PHONOGRAPH COMPANY.
Roanoke, Va. Oct, 8th, 1890.
Mr. Chas. A. Oheever,
13 Park Row, N. Y.
My dear Sir:-
We are exceedingly. desirous of making a good show¬
ing for our Company at the end of its year- the 18th of next
month. This is the interest of our stock. A good showing will
not only benefit us in the way of making a maricet for stock, but
will be of an advantage to the Automatic Company in as nuch as the
bulk of par earnings comes from the nickel-in-the-Slot feature.
But we experience difficulties we had not expected- delays in
shipments of musical bands from the Companies furnishing them.
Will you kindly speak to the management;, of the New York do*
and urge not only pronpt shipments but good selections.
We have many customers whom.we are desirous of pleasing, men
who visit the machines regularly eaoh day. We have sent out pastes
when we have gotten good nusio- songs with orchestral mdsio- and
we have been paid on?. Pains; these customers would not only
mention on the streets the i^good character of the nusio, but
wottld ttfce their families around to hear it.
Ycru will appreciate the straight we are in when I go outside
of the regular method and ask your aid.
[ATTACHMENT]
(COPY)
THB
Michigan phono ohaph company.
®he North American Phonograph Co.,
ICO B*iray, N. Y.
Gentlemen:-
circular letter Bo. 46 dated December 4, ear,
Phoaoeraph Oompa*,, no,,,. that ..'and .ft.r December 'lo '
1660. the, .call b, required to elr. th. publl. lh, ,p,t(m „
buying or leasing machines. ------
0» ieecter 6th, 1660. r. addr.c..d „u . i.,t„ „0Malnli]g
other thing, „ eaquinr „ th. .or, of ,1,1.
he etroa ,0 par.ha.ar. or Phoaograph^oalllng ,o»r '
.0 .... embarrassment. ...ending u„o„ditlo„al and aara.trl.tad
..lea. Th, contained enqairie. „„ oth„ ^
0. «o th... poa honored a. 1th a pm,»pt andoo„r,.on. rap!,, ha,
““ 610. or Phoaographa. and th, cmnner of ling th.
• “ «*• M » have baaa f.r.red «,h „
»9Ply to our questions on this subject! ' ' ~
«« 6rt«; of oar Oow had .
»•*•»« *»* Year h^-hpep,, ^ ^
from dihgn h, W.rMood th* » 1, the late*,,, of ^
1. ah^l *, o***^ . dfcacolutlon Of-th. in^ion,
t*** « » at ,r,„n, r.atralaed, « prc.dbe „ aaraam.,- -
“ “ ”n0“lll0“1 — «** Phonograph 6*^*, „ '
[ATTACHMENT]
; 2*
advance of any official announcement of your determination, most
earnestly protests against such a palpable violation of its fran¬
chise and saorifioe of its vested rights. . "
In the franchise contained in the agreement of Ootober 10",
1888, The North American Phonograph Company grants to the Michigan
Phonograph Company a territorial monopoly in the Edison & Bell &
Tainter patents and the .inventions covered thereby i.e. the ex¬
clusive right to use and license others to use Phonographs and not
only that it will not grant similar rights toothers to use Phono¬
graphs and Phonograph-Craphophones and appliances 'therefor^ And"
it covenants not only that it will not grant similar'rights to
o*h»rs or exercise any similar rights itself within the State "of
Michigan, but that it will not, either directly or indirectly,"
through agents or otherwise, deal in any machines, instruments,
contrivances or appliances of any kind or description within said
State except through The Michigan Phonograph Comp any. '
fee very essence of the franchise is the monopoly. Within
the State of Michigan the grantee acquires the saw "exclusive
#gh$fe wh*eh the grantor before possessed* it buys the exclusive
territory there can be no use of Phonographs foi
any without its license* And not only does the monopoly
’IfS'liSte th|e general publie, but It excludes The North American'
’%p'og^h Company, acting with dineetionor ipdwtion'threugh
othertri'bel . " " ■
[ATTACHMENT]
s *
The Michigan Phonograph Company paid for this monopoly a very
large sum of moneys She oontraot mentions Thirty Thousand (30,000)
dollars; but it most be remembered that the sale of the franohise
was negotiated by promoters authorized by The North American Ocm-
pany( fortified with, an alluring prospectus, a copy of which is
still in our posseasion, and who divided the eapital'stock with
the actual investors'; In reality the franohise was taken at a
valuation of between Pifty Thousand ($50,000.) and One Hundred
thousand($100,0Q0» {dollars; Considering 'the money expended in
the development of the business and the possibilities of the’fut-
*tt$, W have a right to estimate its present value at a sum largely
in excess of its valuation when purchased. And the total present
Value represents the damage which The Michigan Phonograph Company
will suffer and for which it must hold The North American Phono¬
graph Company responsible, if, by its unwarranted course it destroy
the monopoly which it granted* - - -
if will most certainly accomplish if it insists upon en-
fiMing the order contained in the Oiroular letter Noi ~49 by'pre-
bSkI’I?^ an unconditional and unrestricted sale.’ " ’ "
Then instead of possession the exclusive right to use and
tfo ds.C. Phonographs within our territory* Wfl wottla
j compete with the customers Of Thirty sub-oompanies
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1. - —» to 8W, th« .. „ gl„» „n .goal opportune, 0 in.
frits, fee »«»poli.. of other aoh-oompan,,.. ^ ^ipa ^
S~ph Oonpany ... no, organizes ,o'..rry on a snerrlii. hn.in...;'
farther it .onld eomp.1 ^
height.,** snb-oompanles. fhile'.nr'fr^hl.. U. n» a
t°a<a T* « lB “*«•• to i«WUWt,tl.,
Ih. ne. of Phonograph, Ithin onr territory'... he granted hyn.
«•« hnt onr Con***. tn, onr Company .„gre„, m „„ ^ ^
t.rn,o« * ..1. i. the gran, of the ri*,t to £ nnr.;,rlo.
eh 1. a grant of th. right everywhere no, only i„ „„ '
territory hnt in th. ..rritori.. .f .u'other .0lwnl,.. ^
« grant that .ill ...hie „nr ooetomer. „ in***. ~e*.ln,l„."
right. Of other eompanle. M „t only 'heap n. in a iontinnai'
*T“! bU* >**» "*• *«“*-».. for one,~Xhe
Miehigan Phonograph 0ow deni.. ^ ^ ^ —
•ta.hSf.ph Company eo.ro. . .ot-.omp.ny mi. ^
oluai-s* flights -of others? ' - -
*h» Babe-companies, yonr licensees. al,„ .ge„t..
P”’ “ •»*«. oorapei the. ,0 gr„,
'Ti“t“ “ *1U Hr ,h!m «°~heal^n onr t...
H ®ta MMhIy violating ,h. t^ty-firs, par.gr.ph of
f* V* *’ aplm “f «». whole lost lament; ‘ ?
- - ’ *“■ *4ri«, will Info n. yo, a,
% in mimmm « ,on,ra.,i,,ha, ,
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.. P»«.UU, .e»»o, t, pelted M eov.m ,holBi tat ^
8"h part -net he eonatrued ,1th reperen..-,, lt< tt.
wneral a.op*,«l ^ ^ ^
M«0.r. .hloh are r.pngn.m, ,» the ,hol8 a„
FU>'t'“r *h“ s-“*s *” "*•» f ■» eototraidnoV.triotlyag;
**“* *he er“*" M 0*ra'°‘ * interpret ad eo a. to de.trey the
value of the grant-# “ *
CenditteM. eal.e, of ^ ^
«• oertain pur*.... or .Ithln oert.in territirlai lied,. arena,
"**“ “a ,h>‘- *• "eognleea In the!.,. 0oMider-
*«* ,h. en.ln.lv. nee deferred Op ‘our Pr^hl.e.'ln ae
eleventh paragraph he eenetraed a, giving £ „„„h Anerlean
Phonograph Company right to regnlre e»re «» .
conditional sale* " * ~
"* m°"iem tempany ftel, bo«„d to give natl,.
«.« „ «U rafoee to a.u Phonograph,, .„.pt ,lth . reetrletton
Mating nee to », State oP Uiohlgan. .nd that 1, „U held"
«. M* anbtocwnpanlee and the Perth to.ri.an to,.*, reepenelhl.
• «*-«•* tor m lea... gno«ng M the ~ — -
wiae of ±fs exol%sive fights* ~ " -
Ve*y tWy yottw,
®*H Miohigaii Phenograph Company*
flignpaT Sy <?; q* $pven* pres*
Extract from .Report of Receipts to December 31,1390 —
Auto. Fnono. Exit. Co.
Ohio Co.
65 machines
after October 29,1890.
Date
Gross Rev .
Expenditures. Net Rec.
Percentage
July to
Aug. 31
2954.70
2043.13 911.57
69l/7
Sopt.30
3330.00
2020.15 1309.05
6 02/3
Oct. 31
4207.56
2531,01 1676.55
601/7
Nov. 30
3713.24
2776.27 936.97
745/7
Deo. 31
4439. 85
3613.83 823.02
8 li/2
l/2 to Ohio
Co.
18635.35
12987.39
~ 5657. 96
2828.93
2828.98
12987.39 5657.96
■69 2/3
Average
Average
1890. Phonograph - Edison Phonograph Company (D-90-53)
This folder contains correspondence about the business of the Edison
Phonograph Co. Most of the letters are from the law firm of Eaton & Lewis
and relate to the company’s New Jersey tax obligations.
Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been filmed The
following categories of documents have not been filmed: letters of transmittal;
meeting announcements; other routine business correspondence.
EATON & LEWIS
2 Uuer t/ffice/j
/£ '0 f/ff/ff/jy ( EQUITABLE BL
Edison
'S.
O'ffrty 7f/
Phonograph Company, /
Tnomas A. Edison,' Es-
I*, President.
Dear Sir:
In order to avoid misunderstanding, I beg to
say that my attention has not beon called to the qestion of State
Taxes in |jew .'orsey for the current year. If you have received
any notice touching the said taxes, I suggest that you refer it to
me. Notices are usually sent in April and duplicates or reminders
are usually sent in May.
The Sfcite authorities have not yet decided the
qestion of last years taxes which we argued before them last Aug¬
ust. Possibly in consequence of that fact they are not calling on
us for taxes this year. Of course I am not ashing them to hurry
up their decision, for we do not care if they never decide it . '
Awaiting the favor of your reply, I remain.
Very truly yours,
5?
EATOI
EUGENE
/s?/? iJi? W&f/fffll '/// ( EQUITABLE BUILDING)
’A'cu;
A. 0, Tate, Esq,’, Secretary,
Dear Sir:-
\7e beg to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 9th.' inst. enclosing the notification from the
Comptroller that the state tax upon the Edison Phonograph Company
for the year 1390 had been fixed by the State Board of Assessors
at $1200,', and to inform you that this matter will have our early
attention?
Very truly yours.
EATON & LEWIS
c/tcf.
Yft/(EQUITA
6' 189°-
Edison Phonograph Company,
A. 0. Tate Esq. Secretary,
% T. A. Edison Esq.,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir
Referring to your letter of the 9th of June relating to
a notice received from the Comptroller's office, of the State of
New Jersey advising the Edison Phonograph Company that they are
liable to a tax of $1200. we'-' i beg to hand you herewith an Affi¬
davit to be made by Mr. Edison. Please have him sign and swear to
the same before a notary and return the affidavit to us.
Yours truly
o>
EATON & LEWIS
'■•a/yun
,^i-3wL
Edison Phonograph Company:
A .O.Tat
Esq., Secretary.
feu#* $€/■,
hear Sir:
m r, s: 52^5*2
s.«* «. .-st L-rriW1
Very truly your
V
^ ^ C
X
New York City, Dee, 9, 1890.
Dear Mr, Edison:
Re Process tffbr Duplicating Musical Records. Under
yoxir contract with the Edison Phonograph Company, you must turn
over these inventions if they were made prior to Oct. 28,1837. Your
fundamental invention appears to have been made by Jan. 1884. The
applications for the two detail inventions were made after Oct.
1887, but were the inventions made after or beforeOctY iss?? If
r that date, you were under obligation to turn over these th~ee
applications for duplicating phonograms to the Edison Phonograph
Company, but not to the North American Phonograph Company.
Please return the annexed letter with any comments
you may have to make, and oblige,
Very truly your
1890. Phonograph - Edison Phonograph Works (D-90-54)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents pertaining to
the business of the Edison Phonograph Works. Many of the letters are from
the law firm of Eaton & Lewis and relate to stock matters and to agreements
involving Edison, the Phonograph Works, and other parties. There are also
documents concerning the organization of the company’s board of directors.
Much of the correspondence is by Samuel Insull, treasurer of the company.
Approximately 20 percent of the documents have been filmed. The
following categories of documents have not been filmed: routine letters
concerning Edison’s loans to the Phonograph Works; correspondence from
Eaton & Lewis regarding routine legal matters; daily reports on the
manufacture of phonograph cylinders; requests for supplies; meeting
announcements; letters of transmittal and acknowledgement; other routine
business correspondence.
UJ CT), t<£o
1 01 monograph Works. in +
rrr &o:*3oo'oo°
,, x . C°lliriCate °r ^corporation and a list of the stoc2
and -mJT " StatGment Sh0WinE th° nUmbe1’ °f hew by eao
* ”‘ivo *“r“sss- m11 - - ».
pap ei s at your earliest convenience?
Very truly yours,
_ _
Edison Phonogrtph Wor ks ,
Orange ,
Dear Sirs:-
Upon investigating the manufacture of toy phonograph
movements, which has been carried on at the Edison Phonogr^h Works
for several months past, I find tint up to tin present tin® there
has been invested in t his connection about sixty-seven thousand
dollars ($67,000 ). Owing to the delays which have occurred in
perfecting certain processes of manufacture, we have not yet been
abie to deliver any movements to the Toy Phonograph Compaq, and
are, therefore, not entitled under our contract with them to demand
* -pecuniary assistance. I sent Mr. Tate to Boston on Friday last,
with instructions to obtain, if possible, from the Toy Company, an
advance of twenty thousand dollars against deliveries, and under
autlhonty from myself he assured the Executive Conmitte® that these
wouOd commence not later than one week from to-day, and in quan¬
tity not less than 100 movements par diem. In conjunction with
the North American Phonograph Company, and in conpUance with a
request made of us by the Toy Compary, I have waived the first
quarter's royalty due me under my contract with the latter, owing
to air fan lure: to conrnen.ee the delivery of movements in t ine to
an able them to take advantage of the Christmas trade:, thus making
a direct personal loss; of §2,500, the North American Company losing
a like amount.
I write this letter to acquaint you with the statenent wW. dh
I have made in regal’d to comnencement of deliveries one week fran
to-day, ani the extent of the same, am to inform yen that nothing
mast be left undone to bear out what I hare said, which was based!
i^on positive statements; made t o me by y our Superintendent after
he had been inforned of the action whidi X proposed taking.
Mr. A. MacGruthar ,
Edison Phonograph Works,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
I desire to oall your attention to the Fifth Section
of contract between. Mr. Edison and the Edison Phonograph Toy Mfg.
Co., under date August 6th, 1889, in regard to the manufacture of
movements for speaking dolls. A portion of this Section reads:
"Within one calendar month frem the date of this instrument the
"first party {Toy Phono. Co.) shall give to the second party its
"firm order for the delivery of 300 toy phonograph mechanisms, per
"diem, exclusive of Sundays and legal holidays, the said order to
"continue in force for a period of not loss than three months from
" the date of the beginning of delivery thereunder."
As X understand it, we- have now commenced to make delivery
of movements, and what I desire particularly to bring to your at¬
tention, is the feat that if we start cm say 100 movements per day,
and run through the period of three months at either that number
or an increase less than 500, wo will have turned out at the end
A. Mac Gruthar
-2-
Jan. 31, 18901
of the three months between eight ana twelve or fifteen thousand
movements. If we run up to our full capacity, that is to the full
extent of the order which has been given to us, we can turn out in
the same period, 40,000 movements. It is, therefore, desirable
that the output of these movements should bo increased as rapidly
as possibl© until the limit of 500 per day is reached.
y*-
' O _ v. -AiP-r r9x . f9* ' J(2+ {leAL^feAur * yy
/(aj-Oa^PL 6th,
<^ujvQj?JLo~e^
keb 6-iago
Dear Sirs:-
I beg to^call your attention to the Second Section
of Agreement between Thomas A. Edison and the Ediso.n Phono. Toy
Hfg. Co., under date August 6th, 1889. In this Section it is pro¬
vided that royalties shall be paid on the inventions or improve¬
ments themselves— that is to say, the whole of the mechanism of
the phonographic partf, and of the accessories to adapt it to the
doll or toy figure. This Section also provides that 4S Royalty
is not to be paid on any part or parts of dolls or toy figures
used in connection or association with the said inventions or im¬
provements. It will be seen from this that Royalties are not
to be based upon costs of the body, and, therefore, in keeping a
record of these costs, it will be necessary that the body and
the phonographic mechanism be recorded separately.
Yours truly,
L>""
Private Secretary.
v — -ziy -
/
SAMUEL
44 WAI.r, STltlirST,
New York, . Maroh...3ra., 18.9.0 ...18
Edison's Laboratory, Orange, N.J.
Dear Sir:-
Replying to yours of the 1st inst., the fol¬
lowing were the Directors present at the meeting of the Phonograph
Works, he Id on the 8th of January, 1890:
T. A. Edison, President, in the chair.
R. L. Cutting,
S. Insull,
Charles Batchelor.
Mr. Insull, in sending you the resolution, was no doubt under
the impression that you, as Secretary of the Company .would be aware
of the gentlemen present at the meeting referred to, X neverthe-
less have pleasure in giving you the information asked, for.
Yours truly,
-March 5r 1S90
Mr. Batchelor has spoken to me about his
Phonograph Y/orks stock— that is about the interest which he has
in the stock which yai received for nnnufec turing rights. This
stock is divided as follows:- Total issue 1560 shares, of which
38#, or 592 8/l0 shares, are in trust, and 967 2/l0 shares are
free. Mr. Batchelor's interest, 10#, of each of those stocks,
would be as follows: Trust Stock 59 28/100 shares; Oonrnon Stock
96 72/100 shaies.
In regard to Trust stock, we 3hall have to treat lit as we
are treating the stock of the Edison Phono. Toy Mfg. 0o., that is
give Mr. Batchelor a paper which will entitle him to the dividend,
on 10# of the Trust stock. Shall I arrange the transfor to Mr.
Batchelor of ten per cent of the comnon stock above referred to?
Charlotte, N. C.
. - .
'Ti&tck CLwaa. . M>a
Accoir.ra rayn
I C A H P II o H o H A P H G 0.
-oOo-
E D 1 0 .0 II
P II 0 IT 0 & li A P n v ORKS
n o o o r d o f Balling
and
COHDITIQII OP I.LAinJFAOTUKE .
On the 5th of August, IOTP -l70 received from tho Ikn-kli Amorican
Phonograph Company an order to nmnufac turo for ttoir account forty-
fivo •(•45) machines per day, for each working day, &bm tho 1st oi’
August to the Slot Doeotnbor, 1009, both inclusive •, Between thin
tiino and vho 15th day of ITovomber it laving boon found that owing
to contain nooossary cltmgos in tho machine, wo would bo unable to
complete this order by tho Slot day of December, assn, a ccrammi-
cation was addrossod to tho Worth ■Arnold can Phonograph Company by
oxu- froasuror, I.Ir'-. Samuel Instill, confirming a verbal understanding
arrived at a few days previously botwoon himself and tic President
of tho ITorth. American Phonograph. Company, ■ f.iri Jesse IT. I.ipp incott ,
to tin effoct tliat tho time for delivery of tho total number of
machines covorod by tho order of August 5th, 1339, should to ox-
tonded beyond tho 31st day of December, 1339, for a period suf¬
ficiently long to enable tho 'Telia on Phonograph Works to complete
the delivery of the whole- number, which from pur pay roll record
of actual working day3, we find to bo 5,710 machines.
Hie method of billing against tho Worth American monograph
Company lias boon (a), to randor bills for machine □ shipped from
tho factory during oacli month and at tho t ima of ahipmont, and
(b), to render at tho ond of each month n wn Ton n «>,+,« n «™i,™
Durir© the praoont month t;o ha
American Phonograph Company tho sun
LTOd from tho north
’ty Thousand hollars
!2Uvadep((/y\ equitable bu i loing i
.yjxu; i^y/.MarehI5 ,1890 ,
A. 0, Tate, Esq,,
Orange, 11, JY
Dear Sir:
I have oaused a message to be sent Id Vou to'clhy By
telephone requesting you to eall a meeting of the Bo'drd of Dire&
tors of the Phonograph Works for any hour oh Monday when you may
be able to get a quorum, for the purpose of passing a resolution
touching the recent increase of the capital stock of the Works-. I
did this for the reason that it is possible that the meeting which
was recently held at Hoboken may not have been regular,, and it is
now Proposed to have the Board pass a resolution confirming what
was done at that meeting* Will you therefore have a resolution^
substantially as follows, passed at the Board mebting at Orange on
Monday:
RESOLVED, that the action taken by this Board at the
meeting held at Hoboken, on the 4th day of .March, is 90, be and
the same is hereby ratified, and that It Is the sense of this
Board that the capital etook of this Company should be in¬
creased as provided for at that meeting, that is to say, frcm
§300,000 to §600,000, and that this Board hereby approves all
steps that have been taken in that regard and hereby instructs
the offioers and Counsel of the Company to imnediately take
such other steps as may be necessary ,to increase the capital '
stock of the Company as aforesaid; and be it further
RESOLVED, that the distribution of .the said increased
capital of $300,000 heretofore provided for? that is to say.
$ 92,00° or thereabout, be paid in exchange for the property
of the International Graphophone Company, also $52,000 or
thereabout, to be subscribed for by Mr. Jesse Seligman and
associates, also $156,000 to be delivered to Mr. Edison ,
fuHy paid, under and pursuant to his contract with the compaw
is also hereby ratified and approved. *
Will you kindly have the Minutes of this meeting
written out on Monday, without fail, and send them to me so that
I will get them certainly not later than Tuesday morning, as the
Board of Directors of the B.U.P.Co. meets on Tuesday and this mattre
must be attended to before that meeting.
Very truly yours,
EATON & LEWIS
If EQUITA
LE BUILDING)
.yj^Ar/L
A. 0 . Tate Esq. ,
Dear Sir:-
The Resolutions of the Board of Directors of
the Edison Phonograph Works, at the meeting^held on Feb. 8th., 189Q
authorizethe issue of $150,000.' of the proposed increase of the
stock of the Works to Jar. Edison, in'- accordance with the agree¬
ment of May 12th., 1888, As you/ire aware the Certificate of
Increase, of the Capital Stock/has since been filed and this stock
can now be issued,.-' Thirty-two per cent of the $150, 000.,
that is $59,280. , or 592-^S/lo shares will have to be deposited
in trust with tire Memrntile Trust Company. I should like to have
l f
this done bofo/e the agreement giving Mr. Batchelor a ton per cent
interest in tne/fetoek so hold in trust is executed, so that this
portion of the increase may be covered by the proposed agre client
with Mr. Batchelor. Will you therefore kindly fill out two Cert¬
ificates of the Phonograph Works' stock, one for 592 8/lo shares
and the other for 967 2/lo shares, and have the same issued to Mr.
Edi s on .
Change the ameunt of the capital stock of the Company
upon the Certificates to §600,000.' and have both Certificates
stamped "Issued for Property Purchased.'"
If you wilithen have Mr. Edison sign the transfer on
i.he back of the Certificate for 592 8/lo shares and also execu
both copies of the enclosed agre ement With the Mercantile Trust
JZZfccj c*sG£~'d'/
Company, and return tie same to mo^, I v/ill see that ■this matter
is put through with all possible speed,' The agreement enclosed
is a copy of the other agreement with the Mercantile Trust Com-
with a few slight necessary changes in the recitals.1
Very truly yours,
(P'/Ut.jj Ul pi /<-<j
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
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-April._9.tiLt.,.189 0
I send you herewith duplicate copies of the
agreement between yourself and Mr. Batchelor, relating to Mr.
Batchelor's percentage interest in the stock of the Edison Phono¬
graph Works, held in trust by the Mercantile. Trust Company, both
of which have been duly executed by yourself and Mr. Batchelor and
are now in proper cond.it ion for final delivery. Will you kind¬
ly dolivEr one copy to Mr. Batchelor and retain t&e other for
your private files'.
Dear Mr. Xnsull : . ^ °lty’ April I8’ I890‘
Replying to your enquiry, £*»««. Mr. Edison executed an
agreement under date of March H, transferring to the Works the
?? manufacture dolls and toys. I shall send you tomorrow a
advf^+f prepared l0tter covering this whole subject, and shall
it hat-yvU °an safe:Ly reimburse Mr. Edison. But before you
tually reimburse him, you had better wait for my said letter!
Please excuse printed signature.
Very truly yours.
[ATTACHMENT]
EATON a. LEWIS
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J^,>rA
1 Phonograph Works,
Samuel Insull, Esq,
A; "19 1390
Treasurer.
Dear Sir:
Re Rldht t0 Manufacture Phonographic Dolls and Toys.
Si “n0niS;l8nS*thiB y°U’ by ^—ent dat^d
to 1m 8!0; f rZaS he date when a11 the contracts relating
to the Edison United Phonograph Company deal were executed. ®
shorn a h0 llTu ^ °n Pebruary 8, 1890, directed that Mr. Edison
than StS nnolmlTS®A ^ °aSh outlay 051 experiments, to not more
than $10 °o°, provided he would assign his right to manufacture
party to' ^7*' ■ W® ^ intended, to' make the Boston Company a
lust then the assignment. But they were unwilling to become a party
just then, so^t the urgent Request of the Seligmans as well as of
i J ,!fr’ Edi,9°A is no w entitled to be reimbursed his said out
shouirle^'Lrt^ ^'^L1111"] St th0 neXt meeting of your Board an ently
llofei SLr‘ * °n thS *lnUt9S °f that 1119 et ing pursuant to my, eZ
^irSst Srt°?herLa?f e ^ m0r*e Pai*tiCula^ P-sUaht to
of March IThei89bd 6f right. to manufacture
OI Marcn XI, 1890, is in my possess idhj. dtily 'exMUtbd hv +#,»
parties thereto, to wit: Mr. Edison and S y tW°
Hoping the above will ’be sat'isfkotory., | &&&&,
Very truly yours,
[ATTACHMENT]
RE EDISON PHONOGRAPH WORKS'.
ENTRY TO BE MADE IN MINUTES OE NEXT MEETING OP BOARD
OP DIRECTORS.
The attention of the Beard was pan 0ri +1
Siirr-
stsj r ‘ 1
ssis^r £• £"-F"sF='“T‘“sC"-
.the following resolution was unanimously adopted:
1889, with thp r»u y under his agreement of August 6,
hereby is ap^ved; " *°V Company,
bursementfi?eSerSeeniCnf eo" V'1 Edison’s a°°ount for d-~
ths Treasurer, £? SSll stated d°lls and toys* and
as provided for in the resolution S^J1® £ reimbursed Mr. Edison
8, 1890 Mr Trc n + 0 utlon of this Board adopted Pebruary
$ C/00^' Sn! !d *fat amount paid to Mr. jsdison was
following resolutions ^
RESOLVED: That the action
of the Treasurer of the Com-
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pany be and hereby is approved in paying Mr. Edison $ 6 / 00 vfr
according to the accounts submitted to this meeting, in full settle¬
ment of all claim by him against the Company on account of ex¬
periments on phonographic dolls and toys, as set forth in said
s a ement> and that the Treasurer of the Company procure from Mr.
Edison a receipt in full for all of said disbursements, and file it
away in the archives of the Company.
THOMAS COCHRAN,
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EDISON GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.
Dear Sir:-
New York, _ JtH&ULJ,.* . 1390. fgp
I enclose you herewith copy of a letter I have
received from S.B. Eaton with relation to electing two Directors of
the Graphophone interests on the Board of the Edison Phonograph
-Works .
I would like to know 'whose resignation from the present
Board we shall ask for.
Enc.g.
[ENCLOSURE]
- July_8.th , J.S9.0 _ -'j&
A. 0. Tate Esq. ,
Edison's laboratory,
Orange , New Jersey .
Dear Sir:-
I have you* favor of the 7th, returning Agree¬
ment in duplicate between Colts Pat. Eire Arms Mf 'g Co. and the
Edison Phonograph Works, for which I am obliged.
Yours truly,
Treasurer.
I-’LLASL AUUntSrRCT
c. 16 Broad St. .New York. ^ XX3EX3HJ0pCX^ . July 15,1890. _ J/f
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Thomas A. EdtSon?Esq77 < ' /J <R-W ' Y-A-'/ ■ ■
Orange, N. J. (1 . C. JL-Ot, ^ ~
Dear Sir:- \»-£-«.0 )'
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1 enclose you herewith copy ofa^letterl have
received from the Nofeth American 06^pany °on)<the subject the °C
Electric light Machine. | <_ ^ ^ of5---- <"'crv''c
I know from my own experience that the complaint made by
the North American Company is entirely a fair one. I have in use
in my office four Phonographs. In other Departments we have two
or three Phonographs in use, and eventually we will have a much
larger number used in connection with our business. We are using
battery machines entirely for the simple reason that the electric
light machines give great dissatisfaction. Even at Schenectady
where you would expect to find some expert talent they have been
unable to use the electric light machines satisfactorily, and have
I think this is a matter which somebody should take up ,,
immediately. Cannot you assign Mr.Kennelly to straighten the elec¬
tric light motor out?
Enc.g.
[ENCLOSURE]
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NEW YORK, July 14, 1890.
Samuel Insull,Esq.,
16 & 18mBroad St., City.
Dear Sir:-
Yours verp truly.
(Signed) (Thomas R. Lombard.
Mr. Edison. EDISON PHONOGRAPH WORKS.-
I have your Private Secretary^ letter of July
23rd. in answer to mine of July 22nd.
I do not think that you have $ny re^Bops to oojnplain of the
delay in the Chicago people reporting on t£e cylinders they now
have in use. The cylinders to which they refer have only been sent
out to them within the last few weeks, and it would oertainly take
as long a time as it has for them to be able to give any report
whatever on how the cylinders are acting in the hands of the pub-
lio.
I have been having new cylinders sent to my house right along
from the time that you last took the cylinders back to the Labora¬
tory, and all I can say is that the new cylinders are absolutely
unsatisfactory, and if I were -running a local Phonograph Company
I would not for one moment accept them. I am speaking thus strong¬
ly because I have tried very hard to get satisfactory results froln
the new cylinders. The scratch is so very severe that it is some¬
times almost impossible to read the cylinder at all. t bear in
mind your remark that the cylinders should be turned off a number
of times. This has been done, and yet the results are just about
the same.
The complaint raised by the Chicago Company as to the thread
unwinding did not seem to me to be well taken, as I have not had
so much trouble in this connection. My main complaint is summed up
in the fact that with the old cylinders I have absolutely no trou¬
ble, the talking is absolutely distinct and there is no scratch,
whereas, with the new cylinders there is so much scratch that my
people are^delayed in getting a transcript of the cylinders.
Yours very truly.
THE EDISON MACHINE WORKS.
PRIVATE TELEPHONE LINE.
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Name of Person Sending.
1 Name of Person Receiving.
Ttme- | Bate.
. Mr. Butler.
. Mr. Randolph,
3:4 5 . August 5th, 189 0 . lSg
From whom received
: Mr. Butler,
To whom sent:
Mr. Insull, Edison'
s Laboratoiy.
We have $15,000 of notes maturing on Friday, August 8th.
Have just seen Chapman, and he says that we will have to take care
of them ourselves, the market being very dull of available cash.
This I understand is caused by bankers and monied people putting
their money into the new Silver Certificates. Chapman says that
we ought not to take any chances of being able to replace the notes
as they become due, and that he expects a very tight market in the
course of a few weeks.
Randolph to Powers, 3:55, 3jgg
&LUL Tn.. /sic OJUur-
Mr.Insull say^to bring out all information concerning
the matter of the notes to-night witl^^to
Orange, N.J.
Dear Sir:-
I have your favor of the 6th with relation to
our account at the Orange National Bank.
The trouble is we have been so short of money, and had so much
trouble to get through for the last few months owing to the drain
on our resources in consequence of ou r having had to reimburse
Mr. Edison for such a large amount of money borrowed from him that
we have been quite unable to keep a larger balance at the Orange
National Bank.
Yours truly,
1(3 Broad Street, N.Y.
V.,
My dear Edisra
I had a long talk with Mr. Lippincotljon repairs
on return phonographs, and I promised to see you on the subject. ^
The positi
is,' if a local company orders
to give
that. the North American Phonograph Company takes
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new points, arid^if they refuse
order for the links on the diaphragms, it is impossible’
for the North American Company to collect^from the local 'company
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the cost of these, and he asked me to arrange that the Phonograph^
Works would not make any changes in the machines without the per-
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mission of the North American Company* ^ {
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I have looked over the contract and I have come to the^onclu-
sion that this is a matter that should be^ settled between' you and"-
the North American Company. I should like to have your'
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instruct ionain connection .with this, so that I can see Mr. Lippin-
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cott again on the subject.
Do you intend to dictate to the North^ American Company exactly
what they shall put upon a phonograph? If so, do you intend to
instruct the Phonograph Works that they must not make repairs ex¬
cept in accordance with your instructions? If you take this latter
.our.., ho, ,r. ». to collect our „on,y fret, the North hm.riceh
oompeuy. If the, t.h. the petition th.t they ,r. only «lii„g to
T..A.E. 2.
pay for such goods as they may order?
This is purely a business question, and X would like to know
what your ideas are in the matter, so that I can get it settled.
Yours truly,
le with the International Graphophone people, for not having held a
meeting of the Phonograph Works for the purpose of electing their
Directors to the Board.
I understood that this meeting was to be postponed for a day
or two, but it seems to me that it has been postponed for a week or
two.
I am dictating this just before leaving for Chicago. I shall
be back on Friday morning. If it will be necessary for me to
attend a meeting,! cannot attend one until Monday , but I presume it
is unnecessary if you get my proxy for the meeting.
Treasurer.
Yours truly,
$KS®e* IteKBaa^lBaBWte
Eaton & Lewis, with the request that they look into the contract
of Mr. Edison with the Edison Toy Manufacturing Company of Boston,
and with the Edison United Phonograph Company and let me have a
report on the whole subject by the t ime I return from Chicago,
which will be Friday or Saturday next.
Yours very truly,
an order of the Edison United Phonograph Company for a Nickle-in-
the-slot machine.
I telephoned to Mr. Y/are yesterday on this subject and suggest
ed that he should communicate with Mr.Moriarty and advise him
that the order for a Niekle-in-the-slot meahine could not be filled
until Mr. Edison returns from Schenectady. I should like to talk
to Mr. Edison on the subject as soon as he returns.
Yours truly,
PLEASE ADDRESS REPLY 10 ^ ^
16 & 18 BROAD STREET. X /> ' >-
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A. o. Tate, Esq., Private Secretary, ~~
Edison Laboratory,Orange,N.j.
Dear Sir:-
I enclose you herewith copy of a letter I received
this momingfrom Mr.Lippincott , on the subject of Battery Jars.
I wish you would enter into conuiunicat ion with him direct, and
supply Mm with the information he speaks of.
I am sure Mr. Edison would be very glad to trade with the Roch¬
ester Tumbler Company, which is Mr.Lippincott ' s concern, all things
being equal.
Yours very truly.
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The North American Phonograph Company complain
of our shipping out linen belts, on the phonographs, they say they
are no good.'
What shall I do?
Yours truly,
16 Broad Street ,N.’Y)f?
PLEASE ADDRESS REPLY T0
6 & 18 BROAD STREET.
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A. 0. Tate, Esq.,
Edison Labratory,
Orange ,N.J.
Dear Sir;-
V'
I have yours of the 6th. with relation to the
use of the battery in connection with the Phonograph and the
Nickle-in-the-slot machine.
I am in communication with Mr. Haines, Mr. Gottschalk and Mr.
Lippincott on the subject. I will let you know the result.
pU™ °J^,U
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A. 0. Tate Esq., ^L-
T. A. Edi 8 on Eeq.,
Orange, N.J.
Dear Sir :-
We have been waiting to hear from you what day has been
set for a meeting of the Directors of the Edison Phonograph Works.
We urge upon you the necessity of arranging the date for the ear¬
liest possible day, as we are being pressed by Messrs. Seligman
for the assignment of rights by Mr. Edison, and it is Mr. Edison's
desire that that assignment should be made at the aame time with
the increase of stock of the Works. We presume Mr. Insull will
be back on Monday and he being a Director, perhaps you can arrange
the meeting for an earlier date than o therwise. We have all the
necessary papers prepared.
Yours tinly.
2 enclosures.
Edison General Electric Company.
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X’rom whom received ,
' A. 0. Tate.
Samuel Xnsull, Second Vice President.
Total value Fhonograps and Cylinders shipped July,
August and September $ 62156.25.
Value of parts same period, and in addition $ 2652.46
Humber of Phonograps shipped July -298 .August 486 .September 4S8
Total 1272.
Repair account is wiped out, I have, statement' in detail.
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Tnomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Referring again to your letter of the I7th inst.
already acknowledged relating to the rights of the Edison Phono¬
graph Works touching musical records and appliances for nickel
slot phonographs, I beg to say that I have just had a long in¬
terview with Mr. Got tschalk relating to this matter, and I have con-
cluded to obtain from Mr. Bush, representing Mr. Lippincott and the
N.A.P.Co. an opinion which he feave on this subject some months ago.
There are some nice questions involved in this
matter, and there are two sides to it, but apparently the weight
o reason is on the side of the Edison Phonograph Works. However,
please let me reserve the right to change this first and super¬
ficial opinion in case I find upon a full examination of the sub-
ject that I am wrong.
. , . . _ Bef°re If inally give you a formal opinion, no
ao^.iDt I shall rin^d it necessary to discuss the matter with you at
Orange.
Very truly yours,
EATON & LEWIS
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Edison Phonograph Works,
Thomas A. Edison, Esq., Presid ent.
Dear Sir:
Re Purchase by Licensee Companies from Manufacturers
Other than the E.P. Works of Apparatus for use in connection with
nickel Phonographs and Supplies in the form of Musical Records.
Replying to your letter of the I7th inst. acknowledg .
ment of which has been delayed in consequence of my absence, and
referring to your request for my opinion as to whether the N.A.P.Co
and its licnnsee companies are not compelled under its agreement
with you dated August 1,1888, to. purchase all Apparatus and Supplier
solely from you, X beg to say that Mr. Rottschalk, representing
the Automatic Phonograph Exhibition Company, has heard of your dis¬
satisfaction touching this matter, and wishes to see me before I
give you an opinion. I am just arranging for an early interview
with him, and may then have something to cormiunicate .
The opinion which you ask for will be furnished as
soon as possible after seeing Mr. Gottschalk and possibly Mr.
Lippincott.
Very truly yours.
EATON & LEWIS
CwWaf/f.0fty I EQUITABLE BUILDING)
y),CU> /jtv/iy _ Oaf. 23rd, 1890 .
Edison Phonograph Works,
Thomas A. Edison, Esq., President.
Dear Sir:
Re Increase of Capital Stock. Referring to the en¬
closed document I beg to say that the Mercantile Trust Company re¬
ferred me to their Counsel Messrs Alexander & Greene, to settle the
question whether the said Company should sign the certificates of
increase of capital stock. The said Counsel finally told me
that they would ad'-ise the Trust Company to sign the certificates
if the Edison Phonograph Works would united in the request jointly
with Mr, Edison. Will you therefore kindly execute the two en¬
closed documents on the first sheet, thereof and return to me, and
oblige,
Very truly yours,
Major S. E. Eaton,
#120 B r o a d w a y ,
New York City,
Deal’ Sir:-
With reference to your letter of 22nd ultimo in
regard to Licensee Companies purchasing from Manufacturers
other than the Edison Phonograph Works Apparatus for use in con¬
nection with Nickel- in-Slot phonographs and supplies in the form
of musical records, Can you now inform Mr, Edison as to when he
may expect to receive your opinion on this subject? He would
like you to send it t o him as soon as possible.
Yours very truly ,
Private Secretary.
[ATTACHMENT]
New York City, Nov. 3rd, 1890.
Dear Mr. Tate:
Delay has been caused by my not being able to get
a copy of two old opinions given in this matter by Judge Davis and
by Witter & Kenyon. I have also been trying to get copies of cer¬
tain contracts between the N.A.P.Co. and its licensees. With the
aid of Mr. Bush I have procured all these documents today and am
now prepared to begin final work on this opinion. X shall have to
examine every phonograph contraey down to date so as to be sure
of my ground. The question is a close one.
truly yours
S.B. Eaton
EATON & LEWIS
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Edison Phonograph Works ,
T. A. Edison, Esq., President,
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I beg to say that all the requirements of law ha«e
!ee4,C!!!lied with> End that your caPital stock is now increased
to $1,200,000, , which is your present legal capitalization.
Very truly yours.
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From whom received, MR THOMAS EDISON ,
To whom sent,
Mr Samuel Insull, Second Vice President .
I desire to p\it into effect, the following arrangements
in connection with the Phonograph Works
Complete the 312 new style machines with Motors, ready
for packing; i ix up 1282 old style instruments so that they can
be used with Nickel in slot , except Motors.; assemble only 700
Motors ; get 45,000 cylinders ahead, and as this work is finished
shut doYm the various departments.
In any event I wish to shut down by December I5th .
I will put a Motor in the Tool Room, and supply it with
current from the labratory. The Works staff will be reduced to
Ballou, Sargent, Ware and Miller. The Silver Lake factory will
take the horses and trucks. We will employ one night watchman
at the Works. In the Tool Room we will employ no more than six
men to finish ore milling machines ; make Nickel- in-Slot attach¬
ments, and 12 Model Phonographs .
During period of suspension, we will make up our accounts
with Lippincott according to contract, charging everything such
as Tables, and Body, old stylo and new, including p.>v.f,s
in stock.
Edison General Electric Co.
OFFICE OF SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT.
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continuation.
leaving absolutely nothing in the Works which has not been charged
out according to contract. All the old parts will doubtless
be obsolete , in the new machine, as adopted, and must be paid for
before we make the new machine ,
We will put the Doll account in proper shape and inven¬
tory everything ,
EDISON
Edison General Electric Co.
OFFICE OF SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT.
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MR THOMAS EDISON.
I think your plan about the Phonograph Works is all
right. Please send copy of your message to me to Mr Ware .
Edison General Electric Co.
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tells
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I beg to say that: Mr. Bush '•h‘ *
rote a letter to you and thijs1 **
o.nograph Company, and /%
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November 12,1890,
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Dear sir :
Re Duplicate Cylind
mo that last January Mr. E
you wrote a letter to the North
that they gave certain instruct!
licensees, which Mr. Rush says upset in law to
conclusions set forth in my lengthy opinion of
given to Mr. Edison, a copy of which was furnished to Mr.’ Rush .
representing his clients. 1
I have no copy of the said two letters of last Janu- 4
ary, and doubt whether I ever saw them. Are they really as ser- ^
ions as Mr. Bush says? Ploase send me copies, and give me -your- J
views on them, as to how they affo st the now plan put forth in my
said opinion to you so far as you recollect it, and oblige, s")
Very truly yours, J
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Edison Phonograph Y/orks, DEC 15 1890
Thomas A. Edison Esq., President, Ans'd . . 18
Oran ge , W. J.,
Dear Sir:-
Matter of Buekalew. V/e are in receipt of your
(P/-i ??%(, )a\. (2°
L'yy/ced
EATON & LEWIS
< //r"f /•//( izq u I TAB LET BUILDING)
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Edison Phonograph Works,
T. A. Edison, Esq,, President,
Orange, N, J,,
Dear Sir: -
Matter of Buokalew. Referring to your recaht
instructions that we might settle this case for $750., if V/e
could not settle it for less, we;, have the pleasure of inform¬
ing you that we have succoodedjaf ter considerable difficulty
in settling this matter for $500. Will you kindly send us a
check to tie &rder of "McCarter, Williamson & McCarter, Attorneys"
for that amount. This should be sent at the earliest possible me
ment, as very prompt payment was one of fee conditions of settle-
On looking over the case and its probabilities we can¬
not help congratulating ourselves upon this result, If we had
been on the other side , we certainly would not have settled
for this amount.
Very truly yours,
tfj
EATON 8. LEWIS
Edison Phonograph Works,
Tuomas A. Edison, Esq., President.
Dear Sir:
V (EQUITABLE BUILDING,
i^V^-Dec. 24. 1890.
2 "fj 9-q
Ro Bu eke lew . This case having been
settled for the amount of $500 heretofore received from you, X bog
to enclose a full general and special release under seal, duly
executed by Alonzo Buokelew in your favor, which kindly file away
m the archives of the Works as a valuable original document.
We are well satisfied with this settle¬
ment, and hope you are.
1890. Phonograph - Foreign - General (D-90-55)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
commercial development of Edison’s phonograph in the United Kingdom,
Germany, Mexico, and Russia. Included are testimonials from Russian
composers and musicians and letters about the presentation of the phonograph
to Porfirio Diaz, Czar Alexander III, and Friedrich Krupp. Among the
correspondents are Josef Hofmann, the Polish pianist; Thomas B. Connejy,
Edison’s phonograph agent in Mexico; and Julius H. Block, Edison’s agent in
Russia. °
Approximately 60 percent of the documents have been filmed. The
following categories of documents have not been filmed: routine requests for
phonographs, supplies, and agencies; letters of transmittal; duplicate copies of
selected documents.
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k ■ - - <-&*>**-> where, as you know, I had the ploasuro of
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teij.ro I?, have, not hoard from you in reply to my various- ailingSi.qxiJroased
r- “* ‘'in* my last.'letter from J£i Romo, since in.;a little more, tliun a*
L..,. „., v/eeks, time the last concert of Rubinstcin‘'wi'ii placo. ■■
| ‘ *' Notwithstanding, I am proud to inform y ou, that. .. I . have achieved
!,...: . better results with the small funnel already, "than tW^iaho 'solos
r'1" you5 'we re so kind to send with this last floto o£ goods* Wo are ra¬
ther particular about “MUSIC"; selection, performance* roproduc—
tion & therefore I cannot well show the musical cylinders to the
Musical Y/orld liore, except there is something good to show , That :
IJ do no't' ;moan empty words, I will prove tb1 you in- sending .you a ftr
few such cylinders of various music ( even,, of dances, but played
differently) & would ask you to lot me know the' 'deoliihlbai ‘'defects
of rocording in same, since I, on no acct. think, that thoso piano
cylinders you kindly sent mo are of the best you havo. ' -r-
I am sitting up the nights to study the musicali-nacks,.,Qf the
phonograpli & can now readily appreciate Mr. Wangemanns words, that
this phonograph is not intended for musical recording* If the eye
lider were say -bet four times as long, what a wonderful machine It
would be for composi-ors & musicians generallyllll
You ask me to inform you of my progress & I did this, in gend*
ing you a few days agg a few Petersburg papers about, iqy dQBionfcha**
tions there. I do not doubt, that most of the paeWsV ( with the ex¬
cept ion of the german ones) will all seem “grook* to you* lor *2,1
that, I sent them, since Mr. Edison told me , shat he know a ru solan
gentleman, who' calls on him sometimes. It may interost him tQ SOW
irfr\™tflr5 • h°”° * 1 w6uld gladly have translated the pepeni'
f I could find time to do this. The battery now ttoyka
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REPRESENTATIVES FOR RUSSIA OF:
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WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT,
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etc. etc. Orange. N . J .
My dear Sir;-
Your kind favor of December 10.
1889 Just to hand. I am glad the Austrian authorities soon retur-
ned you the letter, addressed to Vienna, as you might otherwise
have thought the behaviour ,on my part, strange, for not acknow¬
ledging your complying kindly with my request.
I now beg to tender my sincere thanks for your generous con¬
sent & am positive, the Czar wil be more, than highly pleased with
the souvenir he is to get; it was Ms earnest desire to get a pho-
graph A he put various questions to me in that direction, which,
unfortunatoly , at that time, I could not answer satisfactorily.
If the matter of getting up the phonograph * the forwarding of
same has been empowered by you, to Mr. Batchelor (as I suppose),
may I address him to find out when the apparatus may likely be ship
ped?
Next month I will be in Petersburg A I would like very much
to inform the Minister, count Woronzoff-Dashkoff when the appara¬
tus may likely reach the pajiaoe. He will be greatly pleased to heav*
of your great kindness, because he was exceptionally interested in
the 'apparatus A was more, -“than satisfied, that through his inter-
mediance the Czar had such a grand treat.
Being well aoqainted with the musical world, I now commence to
collecting good musical phonogram*. Would you take up some in your
■phonogrammothek*? I mean such as are recorded by some of our world
renowned artists.
I found a little spare time A hurriedly translated some PARTS
of newspapers' reports re my demonstrations with your ■ wonder "as
it is generally called here. Perhaps it will interest you to peruso
them at your leisure.
Excuse long epistle A believfme to be , always ready at^
pklF. 0 —
Moscow, 8 (20) th. Febr. 1890.
^)eaz> Si'Zo
Referring to my circular of April 1888 1 beg to inform you,
that 1 have this day retired from the trading firm .1. Block founded
by me in 1863, my partners having purchased my interest in the
firm.
Thanking you for the confidence & trust placed in our house
1 kindly request you to continue same towards my former associates.
In consequence of the above 1 cease to sign for the firm J. Block
& beg to remain
Moscow, 8 (20) th. Febr. 1890,
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In connection with tho preceding circular we beg to inform you,
that we have this day purchased our seniors share in our firm, in
consequence of which he retires from our business from this date.
As the firm undergoes no change the signatures remain as here¬
tofore as stated below.
Requesting you to favor us with tho continuance of your estee¬
med confidence, which we have been enjoying for so many years, we
beg to remain T
Most respectully yours
Trading firm J. Block.
Mr. Wiliam Block continues to
Mr. Julius Block
Mr. William Hirsclifeld
Edison Laboratory.
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WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT,
(Remington typewriter)
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Joseph Perkins & Sons, nr. Redditch
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Seidel & Naumann.— Diirkopp & C!,
;j February 16 | 2S 1890288
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A. EDISON
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KKi).!! 5» f.fj ?c:a. ij«> i,i - • • Mn *»JJB.<,otble! of .24(.ipst, ,]»a« . sent ^tp. me bare **»
ter.day,- .for .which pleas; raooept jmy I, re.^er to
graph or Ciar ,s teamahip Worra sailed. ^ r!twei)ty. .• econd % ,1 will at .onooneke
neceeeairjy, .preparations A hop^tlto jreoeive^he .maeh.ine here in tine, before -I- t;i~
turn; to Moscow; rShouldUhe,. plj9n0graphj.be too3long on the road A ■»»«¥+ Itf.yjj
than l antiaipato. I wmfret,uen.torP?tereburg a second tine, for th; purpose ■#
presenting, the. instrument Kto.,the?Ciar,.swho wi.ll ,..1,^ sure, , be, greatly
withcyour, generous eouYenir^j,. jft gj; B ,)< ■
I have oome.to^Petprsbujigpfor. the;.purpose,ofhcontini,eingti.ny publie sennets
your • great wonder* A meet everywherewith wonderful sucoess, hast wist I gjgp
monatrated the appsratus at the Teohnioal Society (Ia^erlal) In Moeea* i »h*
president of sane recorded a short address to you, whioh I will send you Oitb #
few other phonograms A also sent you a cable, asking you to accept the fcanarfewf.
menberehip of said society. All solentlflo aoeletlee here ere greet Jy *hta-
rosted in yourgrand invention A I an now overrun with Invitations ter |gj^jg|gg|.
ting same. There are 80 professors of the university , who will hear
E^pl: in too lots
TR ADING FIRM
J. BLOCK.
REPRESENTATIVES FOR RUSSIA OF:
Fairbanks & Cs, H. Sisston & Sons,
W. a S. Duiglai, Eclipse Win! Engine IT.
WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT,
Coventry Machinists C« LJ
(Cycle)
Joseph Perkins & Sons. nr. Redditch
Willem a Gibbs Sen. Uacb. C*.
Seidel & Naumann.— Diirkopp & 02.
Jmport of JVTachinery, JIardware & c.
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graph In two lota. Baaldea this third Is the *Aiad&y of Solanoa**. whioh
‘ higher,-' tharf the University, the phyalco-ChWcal sielety, th. Ph.WI.A^um
■ tleal aodety, Bleetro-teohnioal,' pedagogical, teohnled,'hiit»|eai^i^i^|g
4'other' looletlee.too numerous to'men'tloh arc to' folioWi ;
In the Mue'cial Imperial Society (Academy of Music, here) I’ tAA ti! fc«vi *##><$•
Rubinstein, who haa taken exceptional' lnierist In your creation, M preBBht * '
both nestings, I an still in the hopes of talking hin ovsirto‘ play 'si*# t*m
Pieces, until now my attempts In this direction, have been futile.
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Thomas 'A. Edison Esq.
Orange N . Y.
My dear Sir,
• ■ i%#vl-. herewith beg to acknowledge the receipt of your cablegram
as well as of your valued favour of the 4th. Inst., advising me that you
have shipped by steamer „Ems" the phonograph Mfh accessories .
I . now expect the same within a few days , and in the meantime
I beg to tender you my most sincere thanks for tj^e great, kindness you have
sho?/n by sending me the celebrated apparatus of y.ours.
T shall take the utmost pleasure in.. Ssidg- the phonograph and
hope that I soon shall have the satisfaction :and honour to r.eoeive the vi~
■ Iff. \
sit of its illustrious inventor.
With mv best regards, I am,
. Dear Sis,
;fc .
Yours v,a;r,y .sine erely
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W. 8 B. Duglis, Eclipse Win! Engine C".
WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT,
Coventry Machinists C« L*
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Joseph Perkins & Sons, nr. Reddltch
Willem 8 Gills Sew. Gael, t
Seidel & Nanmann. — Diirkopp & C!.
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A.
Esq.
- ->***»< - 0 r a n g e . N. J.
My dear Sir;-
, On my return to Moscow I found
your kind letter of 21 ult. on my desk. As I wrote beforo, the mis¬
sion of presenting your latest phonograph to the Czar r/ill have
my immediate attention. I am now awaiting same with very great an¬
xiety to thoroughly study it before handing it over with the need¬
ful explanations. •
To show you, -i that I have not been idle, 1 take exceptional
pleasure in enclosing to you a few translations of autographs re-
ceived by me from our great authorities, some of whom are well know
on the othor side of the Antiantic. I have , in each case, asked
for an impartial criticism, asking them to express, in a few vor&a.
the impression this wonderful instrument has made on them.
After reading them, you will the bettor understand my onragemont*
disgust in seeing my fears * anticipations, expressed in a late let-
ter to Mr. Batchelor, realized to their fullest extent.
A few days ago I witnessed a phonograph* seance, advertised by some
travelling mountebanks, which was so wretched, that I jumped up
after the second number, in order to avoid giving vent to my feel¬
ings publicly. A scandal would lave been the result , which I
would not J»ve minded, had I had the right to speak in -your name.
* a MR. COAL advertised themselves as your RE¬
PRESENTATIVES ft further state, that they will exhibit the newest T
PunlniTPfOV1dl?h.On0erf?h "SPite.. a new attachment* called • the
PHONO (sic. ) which enables an unlimited number of listeners to hear
the reproductions simultaneously.
This "novel* attachment is the common small funnel. They have gi-
Zr™SCoV28 speaking-firm: "the European Phonograph
TOURNEET Co.* Admission 2r. at Si ft lr. at 8 p.m.
Naturally I was greatly interested ft rushed off to seo ft hear them
•a.)- '
Wiat I could I see of the apparatus, it was just like the one you
. kindly handed to me * I therefore hoped to learn from them .especia¬
lly where the chief representative of yours informed the press,
that he was the nun who principally showed the phonograph at your
stand in Paris. The seance was to conraence with recording speaoh'
They did not speak into the phonograph, nor did they shout, }
they roared, so, that I thought thoy would break the glass. When
this yelling was reproduced, it came out so faint, that it was dif¬
ficult to discern the words. 1 aseribod this to a bad setting
of the recording point 4 now hoped to hear good old reproduction*
A CORNET SOLO of Mr. Levy’s was announced. When this was given, X
became completely disgusted. Not only were many notes choked, but
not a faint idea of recognising tho instrument Was given.
I was near despairing when I saw the crowd satisfied with this pa¬
rody of reproduction, BECAUSE they know of nothing better. This
is the result, I anticipated, of soiling the phonograph for "exhi¬
bition* purposes, in ordor to " SATISFY THE CURIOSITY OF THE FEOPUB
AT URGE."
That such "exhibitors" do great injustice to you, that their oon-
duct is simply an act of profanation - all this is imnatorial to
them, they have one interest only 4 they fully achieve it.
Just as great will bo tho commercial loss to the European Phonograph
Co. on tho other hand. The selling of m of such instruments to
each of these travelling showmen, means at least a loss of 200-300
subscribers in spe, because they naturally form their idea after
having heard the nowest Improved phonograph*
Naturally I am unable to show the phonograph to the millions. X waa
so absorbed with musical rocording, besides showing it to the scien¬
tific 4 musical societies, that I gavo but a few seances for oharit^f
purposes. I am proud to say, that I achieved very good results In
musical recording 4 will soon take pleasuro in sending you a few
cylinders, amongst which is one of tho young ameriuan songstross
Miss NIKITA, who has become one of tho most celebrated singers in
Europe 4 ((who commenced her carriers in America a few yearB ago undr
tho name; the miniature Pattit 4 the little Louise Margueritho. ’
She sang "Home, sweet homo" specially for you 4 asked mo to send
same to you, with her kind regards 4 with a small biographical
sketoh of hers. I must own, this is the most mpsical vocal solo
I ever heard recorded on the phonograph 4 I sincerely hope you will
like it.
I asked the editor of our best daily to insert a letter re the bad
demonstration of your phonograph 4 disclosing the other points; to
this they answered thoy would gladly have done so, if I were autho¬
rized by you to do so.
Please excuse tho lengthy epistle . On the other hand I thought it
might interest you all. /y -
Most faithfully yours
T'<5
[ENCLOSURE]
■ (T*
I do i
slated fr
i tlio
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knov' }l0W far Mr* Edison, with his giant strides, will
11 progress in the sphere of science; the artists-performora (vo-
■ ors, instrumentalist, s) must now already look upto him
aour. The cry, that their art is forgotten immediately
, performance, does not hold goou for the future Jit is
now suvea by the phonograph; but "garo aux executant s 1 ! i "
(performers bov/are.) ■
cali st
as their
after the
A N T 0 N E R U E I N S T E I M
. Petersburg 15 February 1890.
( Translated from the french. )
phoro grapli is certuinly the most surprising
, the most interesting of all inventions, which
cchtury so predominant. Glory to the great invent oj
the most beau-
nuke the 19th
Edison!
Moscow 14/P.O October 1889.
P. T S 0 II A X K 0 W S K I .
(translated from the rusaian. )
_ I heard tlio phonograph ft was amazed ft sur
of its iventor , who, himself no musician, will
in the history of music, which has no parallel.
•prised
create
at the genius
a revolution
Moscow
14
. — noacow "uonsorva
(formerly director of sumo)
October 1889.
o f mus i c
F-F .
[ENCLOSURE]
(Translated from tho go rman . )
Amazed at the wonderful invention
proach of a new life for mankind, the ;
the genial inventor Edison.
I feel tho myat<
path of which lias
3 - ap-
I)i rector
Moscow 14 / so October l«8W,
w. s a f o n 0 f y .
of LI i u Imperial Conservatoire of
Mus i c .
(The following are all translated from the russian.)
1 bow to-day that
wonder; this "wonder"
to refrain from exclaii
the great Edison still
14 October lH8fc. Mosci
, which undoubtedly
causes extraordinary
ming : what ha3 the
in store for us?!!
“»• IHrector of
tJic Imperial Russia1
K. R U X A V
deserves to be called a
surprise ft wo are unable
genial inventive mind of
the Moscow Sec t ion of
n Muscial Society.
iSRHTKo y pi- .
«• in ll« qihoroi of oooi.it- * SM Ph n'“TO —tom*-
sss m-z- “
£i££s ~ Zi‘
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a very important factor. o neur/future it will become
Irtfe^cirlf^ VOi°° of the' lon^ doati
forgotten epoch.. “t. 1Ual romatlocs with Peonage a of a
POLO N S K I
St. Petersburg l(j / g6 November 1889
[ENCLOSURE]
Whilst sitt inf; in fit. Per
ing , recitations, which had bo
ocoan; „u hoard the applause ft
we li stoned to tho voices ft soi
tho a rn o r i c an laboratory of Ed.ii
from t lie other hemispheres - iv*
the
•ovolvii
Iii) wo li stoned t.u music, sing-
forinou on tho other aide of tho
shouts of tho aijjpr icon public;
- mechanical v/ork performed in
All this visa brought to ua by
riall apparatus stand inc before
,’tofor c
rapidly
1 llllunu/'.r aph of Edison. It inscribed fo.
lor.t , : lltL1° “*lindors the sound's, which, ho
£“LlcS r-~* b0 «*•***•
Puratus ft rop'roducod with wondo'^Tocc Jacy ** th° aP"
hu\ooksninU™infinf ?” hi31mirai is *oPt i" letters & books;
iojico m painting ft photography; his voice in the phonorr-nh ft
^ t tlle,i7?vontiyn of the phonograph pethapa opens as
"* " “*•«" 03 “>•> invention ol
!it. Petersburg id /53b Hovombo:
A L E X I !
18Kb .
P0115 C HI-N .
JSs/sSSkKSSSJSSS
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come o enormous importance to the art of music . ’ '
:^;KEE
n 1 ° 0 L A S H 1 M 3 K y-K 0 R S A K OF
St. Petersburg 25 February lKhO.
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[ENCLOSURE]
- the ingenuity
nanu physical
ifih geniuso
»v“ -",s ICT "i,„* rSS “* T *-«•“. * -
voice, wlion- -listening -to it ii-or, -t. di p.p't! uan hu recognise his K«i
that, when everybody will be able' to u<io '' it -■ 1“°,' 1 feo1' certain,
chang os in the voice, as we watch , aUlly * «»«« w--.tch the
of the minur, we will then bo able to stud^on" °U-’ *UceS by moans
tion acid to thorn the necessarv nuance* V ^-i • r.Yaicos to PG!’fec-
our inner omotions, as we feei" tho» *' Pliability to express
studied by aid of a mii-mr 7. - - The rail''iory of the face is
press ion may bo used, will bo studied ^ °f “ V,°ilJ0’ ir tJli“ ox-
•'i’tie phonograph for this pin- oso i- • ,ncuns °r the phonograph,
cilesoly , with painful aca.r'cv alT, Ubl0' x» "Producing mer*
mor it appears as an unbiased critic *' ZZZ * of thc I'orfor-
comploto . .1 udge . Our; faith in it is
Profeusi
St, Petersburg «ii -February IfibO.
■ s a n ;6;..,u s 3 .
!c st • Ponoorvato;
..»;SLrs7i"%srur^“s r sc,i:» ~~ — **
was considered out of rcaeih * lost to m*? lmno«*alize that, which
tion of the most varied sounds with the r rZ V’ Vho ™I’rocinc-
lows in the highest degree. Tho ^ ! *™at n,Uanties "Brvel-
18- ■ considered & acknowledged by eeiontin?* ‘8 1^lai°Cral!h , l*or so
achievements/ in the laws of physics* r , • 0,10 of H‘v° «ran1ost
now -drawing near its closo mL^ustiv h WlUC' ' tho lyth century,
doubt, that tiio treat diaoowS tff 5J pji Thero 18 no"
fui implement in working out multi +udinouni W\11 sorvo aa u Powor
nr^r"
Vice-P.es idont of t)ie Imperial Academy ^^Scuericos
Members: A.Nauk, . A.’Jdolin.
* at.,, I**SohronktM.Soochomlinoff.
St . . . O.Baklund.W.Radloff, W.Bokotoff.
• - - oburg. 84 February 1;$<J0. K.Saleman.A.R»mint*in»
[ENCLOSURE]
i of Kdisons Phonograph to cay by Mr. J , H,
ci with complete success.
with marvellous accuracy, all the- rocor-
vividly as wo only know it
1 Bounds woro a true copy
Tlio demons t rati n
Block , was ueuoinpaniot
Tlio apparatus roproducc
dod sounds; the human i
in the natural way of talking; the :
of instrumental performances.
In lie toning to reproduction of former records from hew York * oth¬
er places & also of the new records taken during to nights domonstr
a tuns wo were fully convinced of the solution, by aid of the pho-
nogmi*, of the difficult problem, that of preserving the sounds in
all their reality.
, has i:
olunlurily ]
instilling the
ubtocly, in the
cop impr
f t)iis reality
present at the demonstration % ir
•uinassomc nt at the genial invent io
this wonderful discovery will urn
important service to mankind.
Inspired with deep respect of the . .knowledge ft labor of Thor:
hd i son , wo sincerely wish tiiis grejat inventor continued sue
his untiring ft universally useful seal* activity.
SO October 18«b , (tt-l/ij - n p. m. )
at, Petersburg, English Embankment #10.
on all
- ion &
that
WORO K Z 0 V
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Minister of -the Court,- Count W O R 6 M T z 0 ]■’ F
’ P A S H K 0 '$ V .
Hinistor of the Interior^ •Secretary of State I.DURH0W0.
Minister of War. Oonrul Ajutant Wi’ER -'WAHMOWSKI . .
Secretary of State of His Majesty M^^PETROPi1'.
Minister of Ways -ft Communications,
Secretary of Stato, • HUEBEEMET.-
Chief of tlio • General Staff, General AdJ-. OPRUTCHKB'F.
[ENCLOSURE]
Part-Translations from varioua ruaaian daily papers."
Tbo J^OFASIffiANIHl (Citizen) writes: ( Oct.31.)
?Ct’ 20’ 11 a,m* servico was held in the church
palaoe at Qatchino Their Imperial Highnesses tho
Etaperor & Empress , were present as well as their children ft
tho Grand Dukes Sergei ft Paul Alexandrowitch with their wives .
°''®nine* after dinner , J. H. Block, by order of Mr.
+demoatrated the Phonograph to the entire Imperial Family
* * Personae08 belonging to the suite of His Majesty. *
tionfTho»r addr088®d Mr; Block. personally ft asked various ques-
The nhono^L11!!6 con8t™ctitm of the phonograph ft about Mr. Edison.
? P ^produced a cornet solo very distinctly . Another
8010 wee afterwards reproduced through a funnel. After the
ducod aThe«aJ 8®lo» sanS by M*88 Stewart of New York, was repro¬
duced Then followed various sounds produced by working different
tools at the laboratory of Edisons. A few more numbers wore renm
d-edi*; «-n the Phonograph recorded some words , spoken into it
by the Bnpress ft Oeiji-al Richter. . . .
* an2°if*y Ur‘ ®looh »ill demonstrate the phonograph to the press
ft some literary ft scientific men; invited by him. ..... P
— — — — 0-- -
p-_„ s . The— - ^H-U^IB WIEDOMOSTY* ( Russian News )/pricipal Moscow
.‘—“asks
**• »“£.r. srszs&z Jtrj&rr™* ,n *
- 0_! - _ -
A second telegram in same paper on Nov. 1. reads as follows:
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
-zizr, ss :
/drecoid^d°f th° b°^rd to the ground in the laboratory of Edisons ft *
' recorded some words spoken by the Impress ft Genial Richter. *
* fhe st_. PETERSBURG HEBOLU-Unv. 1. 188e. wrlt0B
lation of what the Grashdanin of 81 Oct. brought.
(enclosed original paper.)
[ENCLOSURE]
K
bra ted inventor Edlaon d.JlitreJod’.he
ttXoS^[t?^..r<,,ut, * ,he isei"",”= rf
to ufl +vi« sp te of all the easenoe of vondera predicted
* t*>e r°ality has auperoeded our anti oi pat iona.
We may say, that the genius, by this hia i 4 „„ x.
wwmmm^
is no dif f, o„ ! ’ tfuth * clearness, that there
nograPhlc . J J J ' Y Yt / \\\\\\\ the pho-
century*. #^!t0 Wonder* ^ "°rthy of the end of the* ni^^th
« s»
audience the cough * laurhtL To *“! sreat enjoyment of the
reproduced the Mcitati6m\ .. repeated each time tho phonograph
[ENCLOSURE]
- Anaoamgstc^sst^ow.ere greatly obliged to Mr. Block who kindly
gave us the chance to get acquainted with this "magic box*, which
will create a revolution in commercial, ft family circles, in arts
sciences&c to such an extent in bo many ways *hakx**x*x which, at
the present moment is quite inconceivable . .
In spite of the well lighted room , in spite of the many intelligent
faces around us, it was difficult for us to overcome the impres¬
sion of a supernatural or magic power . the effects of this
improved phonograph of Edisons can awake horror. ....Mr, block who
kindly received the apparatus from Edison, has succesfully exneri.
mented with same in Gatchino ft in the highest circles. .. .Always the
impression was alike: the impression, that the performers were pre-
S^V’^”The Phan°eraph is a grand invention, the most marvellous
which human mind ever created- with this sensation we left to-day
the highly interesting demonstration of Mr. Block. -
The "NEW TIMES * (Novoe Wremia) Nov. 2, 89.
........In hearing the phonograph for the first time, you are com-
pleteiy paralyzed.... It seems incredible, that you listen to a me¬
chanical appliance ft not to the humanmvoice itself .... .loud aceoi%b
on the piano, followed by comet music were hoard. The illusion
was complete . Still more was the illusion increase^ when after
the musxc ceased, loud applause ft exclamations of bravo wer£ heard.
• . * .all this waa reproduced with "phonographic* accuracy. •••••,
The "SUIN OTECHESTWA- f Nov.g.SB. 1
......& thus we already possess a phonograph, in which A. A. Pote-
chin s oratorial taleant has been immortalized. It is true -in the
whole of Petersburg (Russia) there is but one such apparatM, but
we are positive, that tho phonograph will spread rapidly with us,
since such an energetic man, as Mr. Block, has taken hold of it. ..
.....& we can say Mr. Block is an extraordinary energetic man....
WP„r°V!!d by th® my h0 80 introduced the cycles
in Petersburg.10 years ago the bicycle was Just as great a curio-
ted hv Mn „ ?h0n°erarh 18 • 3116 flrst bicycle waa demonatra
ted by Mr. Block, who not only rode tlie machine himself, but also
conrne need teaching others the art of riding; after that he arranged
mm! 7J, IT8"’ "ith Sr<»t difficulties succeeded to get the Govern-
liTt\n £ ° orS«nizine a bicycle club ftc.&c Comparatively
ttle time has passed & we now seo such a quantity of cyclists ■
[ENCLOSURE]
Uhat the police wqa obliged to issue special regulationso ...The
reader may ask-: why did Mr. Block take all this trouble?- Simply
.because he was th^only dealer in cycles at that time. The same
thing will happen (the phonograph. If the same Mr. Block has taken
the machine in hand, the introduction will be a very rapid onewith
The ■ MINUTE '
l MinutaJ Nov. 1.89.
.......This phonograph is the first ft only one in Russia & Mr.
Block received it from Mr. Edison, with the view of acquainting the
Russian Press ft societies with his invention....... ^
. 1116 sounds reproduced by the jfchonographare wonderfully
*“• - *■ *«*> SLi
The * NOWOSTI ■ (News) Nov. 1.89.
. ^o-day Mr. Block demonstrated the newly improved phono-
er?Ph.?LEdi8°n t0 the representatives of the press ft literary ft
Rua3ia. Mr. Block neither wishes nor does he feel a himself
fes Mr rntxalison °f ^ »!“m°srB*h for any conmercial purpo-
,Mr\™ Edison, as Mr. Block explained, gave ate this inatru-
^nt for the purpose of acquainting the Russian public with same...
lith /le.nSeTbleB &C* °f the various instruments are reproduced
prJduISr m °arn0aS‘ Just as P6rfectly the human voice is re-
- - — Nov. 1.89.
d;^;;;;;;^ SS™focT.!?!.!!?!ly domon8trated tp us ln th® H°tei
I''’:’*,!1® sounds are perfectly reproduced. The human voice ami**x
sowids like a living voice; the ^ words are so distinctly, heard
JJ8* “ involuntary shudder is the result in listening to this
apparatus, endowed with a sorcerers power .
ev0ntB *h® Phonograph experiments were exceedingly interes¬
ting ft successful. We will again return to this. subject. ....
The “GRASHDANIN* (citizen) Nov, 1,89.
reproduction a comet solo, with piano accompni-
y WOnderful* we uant find another woni for
»n B ld the 80unda you hear applause, shouts of bravo ...
L8vrh0lrfPr°^Td ** 80 surPrisinely well, that writer of th*
would have believed in a supernatural force , if is ye*rs ago....
ment '
[ENCLOSURE]
1116 "ST. PETERSBURG HERALD" Nov. 2. 89.
........was demonstrated by Mr. Block In a very clear, disctinct
& interesting manner. This apparatus was given to him by the in¬
ventor exclusively for the purpose of acquainting scientific &
d!?ir,8?h?etrf?a Wi!h the lnvention‘ That Block fully succee-
ffl. \ thi‘ 3 ‘ llrec t ion, was proved by the public invited; they all
left the hall completely satisfied .
The phono reproduced, music, singing, recitations &c with the grea
test accuracy; repeated the finest^ nuances T. ..... ,
Thh
'R USSKIE WIEDOMOSTI ■ ( Russian News) Jan. 14. 90//4v
hLTw^n °^0ame88 * P°wer of was simply marvellous. You h
^ close your eyes to think that you are present in the
Lr001n 8 St0P8 distantf««m the performer . Similar
Se toom ofPthrhit&1aPPla^e rre repeated b* the listeners in
oom of the hotel .... .the laughter was wa3 so contafeioua . that
imteU^«rily 311 thl li8ten?ra commenced laughing as well . £ch
e was so pure, that you imagined the singer standing next to
you & each word was distinctly heard . ..f...
The "MOSKOWSKI 1IST0K" (Moscow paper) of XK Jan. 14,90.
celeb rated YMisonatnM^ B1°Ck demonatrated the phonograph of the
scientific nil. !!..? r0pre8entativ*8 the press & to the
Si,n°L!h\,3r^"enB ®di80n 30,11 10 Mr‘ Blook« n°t for commercial
trials ’ b * 5or 'acquainting the Russian public with it. The firs
Jear he hL^ * Tv B1°°k in Peter8bure. On Oct. 30 of last
? I*** lhe eood fortune to show the apparatus in the palace
dinner.’ livoJ\MOr^°Wnth0 Phonoeraph wass first shown at a grand
koff in bn y lh?,Governor General of Moscow/ Prince Doijprou-
(brothi TvT 18 61fe8t8 the Grand Duke & Grand Duchess Sergei
(brother of the emperor) . * everybody distinctly heard' am.
onin! T Various instruments, songs, laughter &c. All this was
correctly repeated several times by the apparatus. .
:;*••• 11 bot fly repeated their words, but all peculiarites of
their recitation, pronunciation * intonations, Just recorded....
[ENCLOSURE]
The * MOSKOWSKIE WIEDOMOSTI" (Moscow News) Jan.15.fi0.
,On January 13.. Mr. Block (owner of the well know business
demonstrated to the press 4 to some professors, the im¬
prove* phonograph of^ison in one of the halls of the Slawainsky
Bazar ........... (then folios a repetition of what has been trans¬
lated from the "Moskowski Listok* as to where the phono had been
*is) . the aon«e, recitations 4c completely
paralyzed the listeners through their reality, clearness 4 distinct
ness of sound. In listening to the singing you could hear the
increased breathing of the simger .
given' *the astoniatunent of the People rose with every experiment
/’Ad>4 -
TRADING- FIRM
J. BLOCK.
REPRESENTATIVES FOR RUSSIA OF:
Fairbanks & C.°, H. Disston & Sons,
W. 5 8. Douglas, Esligss Will Engine C".
WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BER
Coventry Machinists C» La
(Cycle*)
Joseph Perkins & Sons. nr. Redditcli
Willem 5 Silts Sew. Uach. C".
Seidel & Naumann. — Diirkopp & Ci.
Import! 1 of JVTaci-iinery, Hardware & c.
/ d|f
ftf'pir 1
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We use „A. U. C. Code" 4-tli Editioi
March le/il 1890. x88
Sl.-'&letafmtg,
EDISON Esq,
Orange. N.
•My dear Sir;-
I . With a lighter heart I address
A few lines to you to day. The St. Petersburg press seems to take
the matter more earnestly ft one paper makes quite a characteristic
comparison with the phonograph I * first demonstrated. In the second
case, it is evident, another reporter was sent this time ft he, not
having been prosent at my seance, very conscientuously pioturod the
- true impression received, for he is right in not praising the stylo
of the Paris demonstrations to the public, at large. Wherever I can
I explain the reason of the weak ft partly very poor demonstrations
at your stand, I.o. the hundreds of thousands thronging to the smaU
instruments, all wanted to get something for their waiting, whereas
the young men, had to hurry them along ft hanily gave them time to
adjust the ear pieces ft could not pay much attention to the appa-
„ra*U8.» whilst paying attention to order amongst the public.
Very truly yours
[ENCLOSURE]
( Translated frc
the Petersburg Gazette March ls/«7 18b0. )
J™ PI'OHOGPAPH WITH A PAH COLD.
Mr. A. Gillin
Phonograph 'J.'oui
digitators are
j re sent, at i vo for Puss;
Go., had the "honor"
ci to say, -to domon’str;
r other, tin
i ages pro do in:
lipoctoa" public was
lot. run y people wore
iats of the Meiningo:
1. Mr.. G. reau his ir.i
attained brilliant i
mo in honor of Ikii si
: la
man Edison
ana & proati-
ipocted" pub-
tho Hotel
, for some
lies -of un-
-• siowiy *; it'acei-r":, ,‘;^,“ii,n0,iol.0nou8- si)oe,jh siow1^
m 'I,'" 1 ,i0+1c°JoJ;0i.r° Un OU° in h°r,° r 0f sor • A pi ty wo -could
weirilSlavL\bly1’ exception-
Those, who hud occasion to witne'"- the c' >r * t
gra],!, of Mr. Block, last win tor, "could readily concludf
Gi 11 ms phonograph very strikingly differs front the one’ of ?r
Flock & moreover it differs to its detriment very* ao-iously
The phonograph of Mr.G. continuously brim s forth , - •
mind you of the crowing of a cock,* of Punch V ,luUy.“. rG"
itrxrvoVr:i,Tr, t ih;rcs a r*
exclaimed a aensitiv
o lady, "the phonogruph has the
GoodnoL . ...
IKW.UEHklA 1
Ediaons Joules t IhilT. . . . * onda"C°rca the health of the
The" re spec tod" public loft the ulaco vnr. n+ + 1„ '
exporim ent . Wo were asked to wlit * hoar some more '"Sro Un th°
Well-" 'we^coul ^ • • • Naturally , the JOURMKY.*. . , , *. ‘
rrout uyi)w>««?nl'°1' otanc. it any longer. When the phonograph with
HEALTH * from "all ’ou^f * *r°™ndoua SNEEZE, wo wished it, GOOP
aU OUl heart & hurried homo..
[ENCLOSURE]
(translated fro in
"Grauhdanin" .
Pbg. lti/feB March 1890
■)
Tho phonograph demonstrated by Mr. Gtllin ropre sent a the
highest degree of perfection attained by Hr. Edison. Yot this spe¬
cimen does not show anything now comparod with those exhibited at
Paris. Mr. Edison has not succeeded in removing tho moot important
a defects in his phonograph, via: the noiso caused by the motor,
K) the weakness of reproduction#: last, the loos of the "timbre" in
reproducing, via: our ear should be able to discern a horn freni •
a trumpet, one human voice from the othor Ac.
Ill e first defect would n: t matter so much, but, as long as tho
othor two exist, it will be difficult to expect to see tho phono¬
graph in general use & in the present state it can but be looked
13, on as an expensive toy, but not as a serious', practical instru¬
ment . The reproduction is so woak, that the si ightout whisper in
the room makes tiro sound unintelligible. The "timbre" is not ropro- '
duccd at all. The phonograph lias its own timbre, which reminds you
of tho crowing of the cock. This is tho reason, why tho sounds- of
soldiers trumpets & of Pattis singing seem alike through the phono¬
graph. In presence of such defects all the storios, that tho pho¬
nograph is able to create a complete illusion in reproducing artis¬
tically musical pieces, performed by artists, must be tratosib rred- -
to tho land, of myth.
This illusion can be compared with the effect produced by a very
badly engraved oopWHuphaol, after having aeon the original paint-
. TEADING FIRM
J. BLOCK.
REPRESENTATIVES FOR RUSSIA OF:
Fairbanks & 02, H. Dioston & Sons,
1 8 8. Douglas, Eclipse M Engine IT,
WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT,
Jmport of JVIachinery, JR^ardware &*”c.
m***, 80/llApril I860.
ffiW^x & EiDis Sew. Ilacft. Q“. Thomas A. EDISON Esq.
Seidel & Neumann. — Diirkopp & 0!.
Jfjpvmig M.chines) ORANGE. N. J. 7
- - Dear Sir;-
I beg to advise receipt of your fa-
Vbrs of 6 * 24 ult. for which please receive my very best thanks*
3 days ago I reoeived the’ new , wondetfully simplified phono¬
graph for the C Z A R . It is a wonderful piece of meohanism A I
am sure the emperor will be greatly surprised at the, change.
I am making sane brass connections, in order to'^implify the means
of attaching the tubes to the pipe A also dMer a pretty wooden
base, since the machine body box, markpd on list of enclosures, was
not enclosed with the phonograph. /
After easter i( holidays oomnenpe today) I shall go to Petersburg
personally to present your phonograph to tl»e emperor.
I am very sorry to leam, that the long cable of the Imperial
, "Technical society did not reach you A will investigate the matter
...'J-wnediately ; the cable was addressed to New? York as usual.
. Faithfully yours
id to New? York a
ours /A4/
Sydney ,17/4/ 90
(P A?>© *'■ &*** t /t ^
T • . Edison Esq. ^
'Dear Sir, (r ,/ 1 ■/
When I left London on the lath of Deer, last I brought away two
Phonographs with me and I had an understanding with Colonel Gouraud
and yourself , on the one hand, and Mr. Moriarty on the other that X
should have an agreement , on the basis of the terms mutually
understood, securing to a company, to be formed by me, the Australasian
patent right s of the Phonograph and the Graphophone. In consideration
of this understanding I deposited in the London Joint Stock Bank the
sum of two thousand pounds sterling and left a gentleman with a power
of attorney to accept agreement and pay over money in London on my
behalf. On the signing of this agreement an expert .whom I selected in
your factory, was to leave New York in charge of the first shipment of
one hundred Phonographsdireot for Sydney ,N.S.W. More than four months
have elapsed and X have not received a line fromLondon or N.Y* re .
the matter. Meantime I have made all my arrangements in the various
Colonies for launching the company and am only awaiting a cablegram
announcing the completion of the projected combination of the Phono
and Grapho . and the signing of my agreement.
Having twice visited America and spent a lot of time and money over
the businessjhesides making myself thoroughly conversant with the
machine andlearning something of the method of its manufacture at
your factory^ am naturallya anxious to know how the matter stands
and whether faith is to be kept with me or not . I am aware that
you do not trouble yourself with the details of business but perhaps
you win ask Mr. Tate to write me fully Opon the matter. X am not
showing the Phonographs' that X have but am stimulating public
curiosity by keeping them in reserve. My articles on the Phono vx
are already written but I am withholding them from publication until
the signing of my contract enables me to lannch my company.
Kind regards to Messrs English, Tate and yourself >and,hoping to hear • ■
from you by return of mail, I am yours v^ry truly
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COVENTRY MACHINISTS C« L“
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Wlllcti IE Gibbs Bee. Ilacb. C".
Seidel & Naumann.— Diirkopp & Cl.
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Thomas A. ED IS ON Esq.
A few days ago I had the plea¬
sure of forwarding to you, via Hamburg a small box, containing
9 PHONOGRAMS .
Having been informed, that you were absent from home for some
time, I delayed sending the parcel to you & hope all cylinders will
arrive in good condition & will give you somo pleasure. They
have all been recorded by writer & ho believes the souvenir of the
charming & (equally): celebrated soprano Miss Nikita, who sang "Home
Sweet Home* specially for you, will bo welcome to you. She intends
going back to America in 1892 & thought it quite a pleasant inci¬
dent in her carriers to bo able to a>M her voide ahead .
I also enclosed a specimen of russian, spoken by an actor of
the Moscow IMPERIAL theater.
TRADING FIRM
J..BLOCK
REPRESENTATIVES FOR RUSSIA OF:
Fairbanks & 0°, H. Disston & Sons,
W. S 6. Diiglu, tclifis ini Engine C.
(Pumps) (Wind .Melon)
WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT,
(Remington typewriter)
Jmport of JVTachinery, J^ardwaf^e &C.
Moscow, Rt.-petersburg, Warsaw & Ekath
COVENTRY MACHINISTS C° L“
(Cycles)
Joseph Perkins & Sons. nr. Redditch
Willem a Gibbs Set. liaeft. B".
Soidel & Naumann,— Diirkopp &0:.
June 11/435
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I could have sent you some more translations
eic.e.c 8 ’ of printed matter irjregard to further demohstra
tions of the phonograph, but I have been too bu¬
sy to translate them ft have no one to do the work for me.
After acme messers had been here ft exhibited the phonograpljjnx-
olusively by means of a funnel, I was asked by the Imperial Tech¬
nical Society to give a similar demonstration, in order to admit.; a
large audience. About 700 people were assembled; the hall was crow
ded & I will, later on send you a translation of the papers, which
I believe will^inte res ting to you. Nikitas ft few other phongramns
ha* to be repeated •
The new phonograph # SOo4, which you were so kind to send for
His Majesty, was delivered to him over a month ago ft I was informed
that you would receive acknowledgment from him direct.
I have but a receipt from the engineer, which I oan forward.
William Hirschfeld.
TRADING FIRM
J..BLOCK.
REPRESENTATIVES FOR RUSSIA OF:
Fairbanks & 0°, H. Disstoiy & Sons,
*. 8 B, Douglas, [tlipsi Winl Engine C,
WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT,
JMPORT OF jWACHINERY, j^ARDWAI^E &C.
COVENTRY MACHINISTS C» L
Joseph Perkins & Sons. nr. Redditch
Wlllcoi & Gibbs Sew. Vacb. t.
Seidel & Naumann.— Durkopp &C!
’fflieacow, June 11/ 33
Sl.-fclctnt,!
Ms
if necessary .
(Kerosine V.por Llsb„) .
etc. etc. I do not know how far you would be personally
interested in the musical part of the phono¬
graph. Being largely acquainted with the musical world, I have
done agood deal of experimenting in this lipe ft all musicians aoo
a tremendous futurity in it. If you do interest yourself in this
direction would you mind informing me with whom I might correspond
on this subject, having a few pretty weighty suggestions ft questions
in view.
After having worked a little with that beautifully simplified new
Phonograph, delivered to the Czar y the recording on the former ap¬
paratus is not by far so oheerful as it wsb heretofore. May I ,
once more appeal to your generosity ft ask you whether you would
find it possible to send me simply the top part, marked *X* on pho¬
tograph, which I send per book post. It simply constitutes the oar-
William Block.
TRADING FIRM
J. BLOC K.
REPRESENTATIVES FOR RUSSIA OF:
Fairbanks & C°, H. Disston & Sons,
W. 8 B, Douglas, Eclipse Win! Engine C\
WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT,
COVENTRY MACHINISTS C« Ld
Joseph Perkins & Sons. nr. Redditch
Willcoi & Gills Sen. Uitl. C‘.
Seidel & Naumann.— Diirkopp & Cl.
JmPORT OF JVTaCHINERY, j^ARDWAF^E &C.
DToncom.
June ll/fe3
189 0
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T. E. Esq. #4.
riage tube, with nut ft holdor ft NEW DIAPHRAGM
with arm complete, This would again put me at
the head of the mission entered upon ft would
enable me to hold my own.
Apologizing for the length of this epistle ft hoping to be fa¬
vored with a reply I beg to remain, always Teady at your service
yours faithfully.
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My Dear Sir
In pursuance of the recommendation made to me in
your favor of the 14th. tnst. , J have pleasure in informing
you thaji notice has been given to the branch Secretary
authorising the the prorogation which you have officially
sought for through the agency of Messrs. Gommery, and Peniehe
etc . etc.
Porftrio Diaz.
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EDISON GENERAL ELECTRI
44 WALL STREET.
New York,. . July 3,1890. ixi)
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Dear Sir:-
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We i
i very^nxiWs to,get some Phonographs for
in Canaia in connect
Mr. Dippinoott, President of the North American Phonograph Com¬
pany, states. that he is unable to do anything for us. It has. oc¬
curred. to me that certain parts of the machine could be shipped
from. the Phonograph Works, and other parts could be made in the
Shops of this Company At Sherbrooke .
Will you please advise me exactly what you can do wife relat¬
ion to this mat ter, and yet come within the requirements of the
Canadian patent laws.
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* 44 WALL STREET.
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I enclose you herewith the original of a letter
which I have received from Mr. Connery, together with the enclosures
to which he refers.
Please use this in getting up your letter to Col.Souraud.
You received my ideas on this subject on Friday last. The letter
was to be sent in to me on Saturday, but up to Monday night it had
not arrived at my office.
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*’ G E
G to T B C
Edison House
Northumberland Avenue
London. S.W.
Thomas B Connery Esq, 19th June 1890.
Llewellyn Park .West Orange,
New Jersey.
Dear Sir,
By the last mail X wrote you a line acknowledging
the late receipt of your letter of M sir 15th for the reasons
explained therein. I postponed my fuller reply until this
mail.
I regret to observe by the tone of jour letter thatt
you feel aggrieved towards me, and particularly so since you
appear to think that I have not kept faith with you. X
therefore begin my letter by assuring you in the strongest
possible terms that you are mistaken on this point.
The dnly thinfc that I have not done which I said I
would do was to myself ' accompany you on the occasion of your
first meeting the Board of the United Company. This promise
was broken 6wing chiefly to the fact that it was impossible
for me to arrange a meeting at the joint convenience of the
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parties concerned in such a meeting. Although I failed in
that , I beg to assure you that the fact of my being present
when you met the Board or a Committee of the Board, or my not
being present, has not made the slightest difference in the
result of your meeting. All the facts a.s regards your
original contract, and what I felt and still feel to be the
moral Obligations of the Board towards you and your associates
were fully and repeatedly and sufficiently made clear by me
to all of my colleagues. All I- said to you with reference
to future terms was, that so far as I could control the sane,
and I do still believe so, that you should have tte first
option of the business on the terms which should be determin¬
ed upon by the Board of the United Company. I had assurance
from my colleagues that this understanding would be carried
out .
X think I may assume that this statement and
explanation must be sufficient to satisfy you and ranove the
disagreeable impression which you appear to have formed as ■
expressed or conveyed in your letter under reply.
X may now proceed to deal with what appears to be
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the present business position. So ihr as I can make it out,
there seems to have been no disposition on the part of my
colleagues to "freeze you out" as ycu express it, but on the
contrary, it appears that they have endeavoured to carry out
the understanding arrived at with me as regards yourself,
viz:- that "the business should first be offered to you". •
This they appear to have done but the terms which
they have named do not appear to have been satisfactory to
you. That is the position in a nut-shell. For the
difference of views upon the value of the business as estimat¬
ed by my colleagues and as estimated by yourself, surely I
am not responsible, nor do I feel called upon to make any
expression of opinion upon that difference.
I always made it clear to you that the business,
when presented in the form of "a monopbljr", through a consoli¬
dation of hitherto conflicting interests, would have greater
value than before, a conclusion in which you entirely agreed
with me. 1 regret I cannot interfere in the matter ds it
stands atv present. Mexico being so near to the home office,
it is natural ttat it he bus ire ss of that country should be
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conducted by the Board in America. I should consider myself
as unwarranted in interfering with them in respect of such
negotiation as I should consider them unwarranted in interfer¬
ing with me in a negociation which I might be conducting in
this country, or for another near it. My difficulty in
assisting you as you desire me to, is increased by the feet
of the wide difference which appears t o exist between your
views and the views of my colleagues, (excepting of course
Mr Eother5 Wh° appears t0 be of an option differing from that
of my_colleagues. Notwithstanding Mr Edison's opinion to
the contrary, and I say this with some hesitation having
regard to my respect for his opinion, upon all matters, I have
no hesitation in saying that I consider the views of the-dBaarfl
stated by you, are more reasonable than the basis proposed.
by yourself. I think you have failed to appreciate the
value and importance of this business, especially in its
present form, having regard to the amalgamat ion of interests
and the extraordinary and unforseen simplification and improve
ment in the Machine, especially as regards the mailing
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Phonograph. It does not appear to me to be useful at this
time to go back and make any comments upon your original
agreement which if you will remember you did not know the
character of yourself when we first met. The fact thatt
your Agent did not carry out your instructions, or made a
contract which you did not approve of, of course did not alter
the fact of the contract as it was, and the fundamental
condition of that contract was, that you should get an ex¬
clusive concession. As I pointed out to you and I understood
satisfied you at the time of so doing, the concession as
obtained by you was really not worth the paper it was written
upon, and I venture to say that no business man would em¬
bark his capital under such terms which.gave no security
whatever. I made this observati on to you at the time and
repeat it now based solely upon the translation which was
forwarded to me by Mr Ceballos. Not knowing tte Spanish
language I can only judge of the concession by the translation
which was reported to be an accurate one. i feel bound in
self justificstion to repeat these observations in view
of your references to the subject matter of them at this late
day. m conclusion, I sincerely trust that you will still.
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see your way to meet the views of my colleagues, or that they
will be able to make such concessions as the circumstances
justify you and Mr Ceballos and your friends, whom I recognise
have done good service and are entitled to every possible
consideration, to go on with the business, upon a basis which
will return them an adequate, and more than adequate compensa¬
tion for their trouble.
I am sending a copy of this letter to my colleagues
and I shall repeat again in the strongest terms my hopes that
they will do their utmost to reconcile their views with yours,
or yours with theirs, before they proceed with negociations
in other quarters.
With kind regards,
Beli eve me ,
Very sincerely yours,
G E Gouraud.
The difference of views as to value between those of Mr Ediscn
and his colleagues may be readily accounted for on the ground
of his extreme modesty as to the value of his own work, and it
sometimes happens fortunately for him, that those associated
with him are not thus embarrassed.
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, William Block.
TRADING FIRM
J. BLOCK.
REPRESENTATIVES FOR RUSSIA OF:
Fairbanks & C°, H. Disston & Sons,
W. & 8. Douglas, Eclipse Wind Engine 0°.
COVENTRY MACHINISTS C° L“
(Cycles)
Joseph Perkins & Sons. nr. Redditch
WHICH S Gibbs Sew. Ilacb. C.
Seidel & Naumann.— Diirkopp &C!.
Jmport of JVIachinery, JPIardwai\e &c.
J. BLOCK f . BLOCK
■fflcacom.:
BO / 11 September
IS9 0
IS?
3DISON Esq,
ORANGE . •
N. 'j/.
Permit me to express my sin core •
thanks for your kindness in sending mo the parts, which I so much
longed for. I hope you are in possession of the rusoikn .phonograms,
ere this & would send more, if I know they could please you..
A short time ago I was honored with a splendid gift by His Ma¬
jesty the emperor of Russia. X received a most beautiful diamond
ring with a letter relating to same. The stone is of exceptional
beauty & almost half an inch in diameter. When last in Potorsburg
I was told that the emperor had chosen some articles for you perso¬
nally, which were to be forwardod to you . X could not find out
more & hope , that the articles Will have reached you by now.
_ Re musical part of your phonograph:
I have had quite extensive chats with oxiir imisioai authorities
amongst whom were: Rubinstein, Tschaikowski , Rimski Korsakoff ,
Solowieff, as conposers & Prof, gafonoff, Samuss , Hrjimali &
others as performers & musicians in general. X will soon continue
my musical tests & experiments & to-day take the liberty of giving
my experience up to now.,
ALL, without a singlo exception , were thunderstruck at the results
obtained & unanimously declared , that a new era is opened to them
by the means of the phcnograph. Rubinstein, when hearing your pho¬
nograph fbr the first time, was completely paraljrzed & on his in¬
vitation I had to demonstrate it twice at the academy of Music in
Petersburg for the professors & pupils. They all acknowledge, that
it will be of enormous value to all musicians, if a few minor chan¬
ge-
ges be made, v/hich X believe canyeasily completed
A cylinder holding a record of HALF AN HOUR/would be needed , to
enable us to record a symphony in parts (to comnencewith ) or any
other long piece, like a concerto, sonata &c. ( Xf a symphony be
recorded in parts it would be a great help, if a quicker change of
cylinders were possible.)
In order to reproduce, a musical solo, especially a song exactly
in the same key note , sane device is essential to enable a nonmu¬
sician to speed the cylinder exactly as i-tc revolved, when the re¬
cord was taken. This seems to me not so easy as the first change
spoken about, though I may be mistaken. There seem to me 2 compli¬
cations in regard to this. Boibre explaining them I explain how
#3. Sep. 11 90.
I get at the result now. It is the safest certainly, but not a ra¬
pid & simple way. I use. a pitch pipe, sound it, before the music
comnences &, later on , screw the regulator to the same speed,
v/hich is proved to me, when I hear the key note clear & distinct.
Thisytoo long & not a safe regulation for nonnusicians. I thought
a SCALE & HAND might possibly be invented to be accurate to such a
degree as to note as fine as a difference of one revolution per mi¬
nute. If such a fine regulator with indicator were possible, all
we would have to do then, would be to speak into the recorder first
simply stating the number of revolutions indicated, that the phono¬
graph is going to make & is making at the time, & then coinnence re¬
cording the music. The difficulties Incahssee are the following:
1) - Will not the change of strength of the battery., influence the
governor f especially when the battery is getting exhausted?
2) - In recording, I observed, that the recorder requires a little
extra power fbr cutting into the cylinder, the result of this can
well be noticed in musical reproductions, which are always reprodu¬
ced a little higher, than actually played or sung; the result is,
that I always have to lower the speed after having recorded a piece
in order to obtain the same, pitch. Can this be overcome?
It seems to me,, that with the new recorder, being selfadjusting, I
will obtain rrueh better results . in regard to uniformity of pitch,
YAii ch could not always be obtained with the former recorder, even
after being adjusted. Whether it wa s cause^^he recorder or by the
cylinder , which sometimes containsslight uneveness in its substan¬
ce, I cannot tell.
These .are the two main features, vhioh I intended to explain* in
applying the necessary alterations to your present wonderful instru¬
ment, the musicians will be grateful to you for ever.
My experience shows, that to reproduce the violin is the most dif¬
ficult, as it changes its individuality most. Next comes the piano.
With the human voice I have attained wonderfully satisfactory re-
- suits. The most striking fact is, that, though changing its idio¬
syncrasy the performers feeling & faintest changes from crescendo
to decrescendo on the violin is given to absolute perfection. My
best phonogram now is a violin solo, performed by Prof. Hrjimali,
in 3pite of the change of the instruments character.
Will you dome the favor & inform me, whether we can hope to
see the absolutely necessary changes made in your grand invention?
It would be agreat relief to me to know this, if it were simply
for the reason to know, that public opinion should not be prejudi¬
ced as much as it is in America at the present time & that we are
going to see the first practical use of the phonograph in the domain,
of art. A few American friends, who visited me lately were quite
astonished at the great superiority of my reproductions, compared
( loss
with those they had heard lately in the U. =S. What a tremendous)
is caused to you by neglectful Exhibition of your invention.
I Well understand the difficulty of avoiding casual misrepresenta¬
tions, but the prejudice is too universal, according to my opinion.
I Wished I eohld help to set it qside.
help to set it aside. /7
Vlry faithfully yours /o,/
William ilock. Julius H. Block. William Hirschfeld.
TRADING FIRM
J. BLOCK.
REPRESENTATIVES FOR RUSSIA OF:
Fairbanks & 0°, H. Disston & Sons,
1 5 8. Doiijlas, Eclipse Wind Engine if.
Jmport of JVIachinery, J^ardwa^e &g.
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SAMUEL INSULL. ^'Tq8 Edlal'ii
BROAD ST., .
Thonia:; A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, H.J.
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v vork. JVfew yor/c..N.Pvember .1 nth , 1 HPiftp
I have a letter from Mr. \'Iara\^( which he says
that you desire to have the machines shipped to Mr. Eabbri, the
Emperor of Gennany, Mr. Villard and Mr. Rathenau, and that you pro¬
pose to send the musical cylinders later. I think that this is a
decided mistake.
Mr. Villard is anxious to get the Phonograph for the use of
his daughter Who is very ill, and the Phonograph will not be of vey
much use without the musical cylinders.
I am also afraid that you will get into sad disrepute with
some of the Court Officials in Berlin, owing to the long delay with
reference to the machine for the Emperor of Germany. I know that
you are not particularly sensitive on this class of criticism, but
it might do our Phonograph business a great deal of harm in Germany
if we should get the hostility of the German Court people.
I would suggest that you give instruo^na that the musical
cylinders are shipped with the machines, and tint the whole of the
shipment be gotten out within the next few days.
Yours very truly,
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CONFIRMATION OF MESSAGE.
NOTE This confirmation should be checked with the original message immediately on
receipt . It will be assumed to be correct unless advised to the contrary by telephone .
Name of Person Send inf*.
Name of Person Receiving,
Time .
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i'Jov.20th,'90
From whom received: Mr. Tato
To whom sent: Edison Lanp Works.
I understand there were a number of musical records
returned to you from Minneapolis. We have a couple of phono¬
graphs awaiting shipment to the Emperor of Germany. We cannot
send them as we have no musical records. If those from Minnea¬
polis are first class I have thought we could probably arrange
to obtains supply for. the above purpose.
Kindly let me hdar from you.
Answer.
The Minneapolis goods are not here yet. We expect them
every day, and will report to you as soon
as they arrive.
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1890. Phonograph - Foreign - Edison United Phonograph
Company (D-90-56)
This folder contains correspondence relating to the business of the
Edison United Phonograph Co. Included are letters about the payment of bills
for phonographs and phonograph accessories, foreign patent applications, and
the presentation of phonographs to foreign heads of state. Some of the
correspondence is by G. N. Morison, secretary of the company. There are also
letters by Edison’s attorney, Sherburne B. Eaton.
Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been filmed. The
following categories of documents have not been filmed: routine letters from
the law firm of Eaton & Lewis regarding payment for their legal services;
letters of acknowledgement and transmittal; meeting announcements; other
routine business correspondence; duplicate copies of selected documents.
Dear sir:
sffasssr
United Phonograph Works. " organization 0f the Edison
feotur^SS'/’ E4l0°" "“h m“*> *>y Man*-
(2) E.P.T.'M.'Oo. with Thomas A. Edison. — .
n-e ° x E.P.T.M.Oo.' with Edison Phonograph Works- an
of said contracts bearing date July ist, xl89.
Very truly yours,
(•
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New York City, March 9th, 1800*
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Dear Sir:
I beg to say that aft or using considerable com¬
pulsion in one way and another, I have accomplished the
result that Gouraud is persuaded to send a cheque, pro-
bab'y for about $4,000, on account of his open account
for phonographs and supplies. Ho promises to pay the
balance as soon as the bills are audited in London, and I
am told by Mr. Moriarty, that Mr. Jesse Seligman has
satisfied himself that this will be done.
Colonel Gouraud may not have courtesy enough to send
the cheque through the channels of previous correspondent
that is to say through Mr. Lord, his lawyer, and myself,
hut may send the cheque straight to you or the Works. But
that, does-.’not.-'matter, if you get the money. I can hardly
blame him for not preferring to transact business with
me .
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EATON & LEWIS
EQUITABLE BUILDING)
J^y^aiajBOh IK, IH9n.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq*
Bear Sir:
Re E.U.P.Co. Enclosed please find, a copy of a
letter read by Col. Gouraud at the first meeting of the Board of
Birectors of this Company, on the IXth inst. This letter re¬
flects seriously on our claim to be immediately paid your open ac¬
count against Gouraud for phonographs and supplies furnished to
his agency.
Bhile it may not be wise for us to take up the time
of the Board by reading at a Board meeting an answer to this
letter, I nevertheless am of opinion that we should prepare an an¬
swer, to be read if need be;and at any rate placed on the files of
the United Co. along side of Goui-aud'e letter Evidently he had
some special object in view when he wrote this letter and we ought
not to let his charges of record remain unanswered, that is to say
if we have good answers to make to them.
I beg to suggest that you or Mr. Tate at once pre¬
pare points for a reply to this letter, so far as possible, being
careful to have all statements accurrate. If you approve of this
will you or Mr, Tate kindly send me the said points so that I can
get them by Monday morning if possible. The Board meets again
next Tuesday, and I should like to have the said points on hand at
least 24 hours before that meeting.
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Gentlemen:
120 Broadway,
New York, March 11th, 1890
It has been made at the last moment, a condition prece¬
dent, to the proposed exchange of agreements,
First, that I should pay in full an accoivnt amounting to
the sum of $5206.18.
Second, that I should pay $2500. on account of same on
the condition of some understanding, which, I am informed, has
been arranged with Messrs. Seligman on behalf of the Graphophone
Company, by which they assume the risk ( ? ) of the unpaid portion
of the account in question.
The following explanation of the circumstances is due
alike to myself and to the gentlemen hitherto strangers, with whom
I am about to be associated as colleagues in an important under¬
taking:
First: I hand you herewith the account in question
with the letter accompanying the same, which, you will observe,
states that none of the invoices had previously been rendered.
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Second: a press copy of my reply, in which I state this
aa it was impossible for me to audit the account here, it should •
have my immediate attention on. my early return to London.
Third: Except to the value of about §1000 to 1500
none of the articles referred to in the invoices were ordered by m,
;a-d to tho extent of a very largo proportion I have no * ersonal
know! edge of thoir ever having been received by me.
Fourth: Some of the things were sent to Mexico, of whih
the invoices in Ration are the first information I have had upon
the subject, while unite a number of the items are for machinery
designed for the manufacture of phonographs in Europe, shipped to
order, and which I was subsequently exnressly re-
questod by cable not to use. The balance of the account; iff for
'"phonographs invoiced as taken by Ur.Insull, but which he stated ’
Wf "roro presents he was taking from Mr.Edison to 1,1 4m ends in' >
England, and finally, f„r phonographs and supplies which are at •
P -oent in the international (iraphophone Company office in Hew
York. of tho goods ordered .by me, consisting entirely of phono g-
raph.c supplies, such as blanks, bat terios,' extra parts of phono¬
graphs etc., all, or nearly all, are of very recent shipment, most
■ly-Since my arrival in this Country and all are now in warehouse in
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Lohdon and v/ill ho taken over by the Company.
It will not soom strange to yon that under the circum¬
stances I should have required opportunity to audit the account in
question, but rather than subjeot various parties to the present:'-- '
negotiations , to further inconvenience and consequent loss to sons
of them, I comply with the last demand and beg to hand you herewith
my check upon liessrs. Drexol, Morgan g, Co., for $2,500. together
with the invoices in question,' tho chock to }>e paid over to Hr.
Edison at t- e time oi tho general os chan go of agreements on the
understanding that all of the material referred to in the said in¬
voices and other li#o, which is now on hand shall be taken over by
•the company at the invoiced prices, paid or to bo paid byme. Thor
'Whole, account , including the above $8390., to be adjusted accord^ -
mgly between myself and t’:o company so soon as tho goods in ques¬
tion can bo re-invoiced and turned over to the representatives of
the Company in London. I am, gentlemen,
Your Obedient Servant,
P.S. In conclusion I think I may safely add, in jus- '
tioo to Mr. Edison, in whose absence .the account has been rendered
that he is in ignorance of tho above facts and that ho may h-ve
been under tho erroneous impression that tho invoices had been
Previously presented and consequently were long overdue, or even ...
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perhaps that payment had boon refused. Hany of the items are <
dent ly quite an af ierthought on. the part of whoever made up the
account, as every trilling thing which has over been sent me, J
the beginning, as far hack ns 13S8, has boon entered up.
■To the Directors oT the
Edison united Phonograph Company.
March lr
Major Hi 13. Baton.
Moron -t'/tn xouu,
FOHRSfl, The supplies sent to Mexico woro iUrnished to Ool. Gou-
ra'tril's agents. 1 refer to this matter more specifically in the
aec ompan ying lotto r .
Ool. Gouraud states that quite a number of these items arc for
machinery designed for tin nianufe otiu-o of phono, f^hs in hnrooo.
I novor sent him any machinery for the manufacture of phonographs.
I »>m him mao hinory to tin value of about ;;300 for the mwufnoturo
of phonograms, but nothing for tin manufacture of the phonograph
iusolf. I have sent Col# Gouraud a credit memo, for tho phono -
Graphs taken to Europe, by Mr. Insull. The Phonographs aid sup¬
plies scir& to tho International Graphaphono Company wore furnished
on Ool. Gouraud' s order, tho original of which is enclosed with
documanot handed you herewith.
Ool. Gouraud states tint of the goods orders! by him— all or
nearly all— are of very recent shipment, mostly since hit: arrival
in this country . X would call your attention to the fact that a
division of tho Statement of Account will show that all material
except to tho value of about 5800, was furnished prior to tho loth
of Hovombor last.
So far as my request for a sottlemont of this account is con¬
cerned, I do not think that I was unreusoneb lc in assuming that tho
material forwarded to Col. Gouraud aid covered by those invoices,
had been checked with the requisitions, issued in his office, which,
as I said before, cover tho greater portion of my bill. Any sup¬
plies not covered in this manner wore tho subject of correspondence
between Ool. Gouraud and myself, end so far as I am concerned/ are
readily identified from memory.
flic records which I tend you with this letter will entirely
rofnto Ool. Gouraud' s charge that many of the items are fin "After¬
thought." Col. Gouraud' a contract with me commenoGd in .1887, and
£ if PC.
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EATON & LEWIS
/sj 0 ( EQUITABLE BUILDING )
.yljcw 7/c-r/fy _ Mar. 13th.. 189 o
A. 0. Tate Esq.', Private Secretary}
Dear Sir:-
Re Gouraud and Phonograph Orders.- Please accept
my thahks for your two letters of yesterday, enclosing two pack-
ages of letters relating to Gouraud's orders for phonographs. The
thorough work which you have done in this matter is appreciated.
verv T! S!1,iSman 311(1 Henry Seligman have urgedme
very s.rongly not to file any reply to Gouraud*s letter. No
referenaewas made to his letter on the Minutes of • the meeting
where it was read, and it seems that the letter was not signed.
The Messrs. S. think that his bringing the matter up was in very
bad taste, and they hope that we will pay no attenti* to what he
2“d; b31ng °ne that does not concern th« E. U. P. Co.
mi */ Instill takes the same view.
Out of regard to these gentlemen, and to what they
^+\Pe£hi?S We better not brinS the matter before the Boani,
heL1 nevertheless keep your carefully prepared reports,
because the matterwill come up at a future date when settlement
is made between Gouraud and Mr. Edison}-
. . My own feeling is that whenever Gouraud files a letter
reflecting on us, we ought to file an answer, and I yield to the
frfrleirhr,mentl0ned+f0Ve * With som0 reluctance. However, they
even ^ ln 3ayi"s th®t the letter had no effect, that it was not
even put on record, and that in view of its not having been sign-
ed, it requires no attention from us, the matter also being one
not belonging to the E. u. p. Co. 6
,, . , Hoping you will approve; of the above, I remain, again
thanking you for your papers.
Very truly yours.
§ or^
.Dear Sir:
Rerlying to Mr. Tate's letter of the 25th inst. .ask¬
ing whether you should fill Go.radd's orders for supplies, I bog to
say that I discussed this matter with Mr. Henry Seligman today,
and that our conclusion was that you had better address a letter
to the Edison United Phonograph Company, asking their views and in¬
struct: ons in the premises. It would appear that certainly so Ifcr
as all patented articles are concerned they cannot be supplied ex¬
cept by the United Co. or with its consent; and undoubtedly it is
best that the same rule should apply as regards all supplies which
are not patented. However, the United Co. will decide that ques¬
tion for itself, if agreeable to you.
Very truly yours,
TO PKou, C„
|(nteri|atiottal sfljjrajjliojjltonc <|o.t
MILLS BUILDING.
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My dear Sir ’
I have your letter of the 18th fnst.
with letter received by you from Mn J. H. Block, of Moscow,
Russia, and translations of cotnmuni battens that have been
sent to him by prominent peopl'd in Russia, giving thei r views
of the Phonograph. .
I fully agree with you that the exhibitions de¬
scribed by Mn Block must be stopped without any delay, and
if you will kindly send me a cdpy of Mn Block's letter and
the translations attached thereto, I shall forward them to the
London office and have immediate action takep thereon.
I have heard Mn Block spoken of very favorably and shall so
inform the London office .
Enclosed?-! - re tum-yau Mn Block's letter and ac-
ifJPaJiy{ng translations also the other translations men¬
tioned by you. Hours, very truly,
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T. A. Edison,
Dear Sir:-
Re Pooling Agreement between Edison and
Gouraud for E. U. P. Co. Stock. . I beg to say that this matter is
delayed because Mr. DeRuyter does not receive a cablegram from Mr
Gouraud stating that "it is all rirfit". Mr. De Ruyter is to take
the place of Mr. Lord as Gouraud's representative in the Board, and
has notified Gouraud in writing the conditions on which he will
serve. Just as soon as the latter writes or cables to Mr.
De Ruyter that "it is all right", I can close this matter up. I
suggest that you write or cable Gouraud explaining why this matter
is delayed and urging him to send word to Mr. De Ruyter.
Very truly yi
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PLEASE ADDRESS REPLY TO
16 & 18 BROAD STREET.
-j-uly— 10,1890-
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, New Jersey.
Dear Sir:-
I enclose you herewith copy of a letter dated the
8th, from the Edison United Phonograph Company, and also form of
Power of Attorney.
I shall be glad if you will execute the Power of Attorney, as
requested by the United Phonograph Company, and return s me to me at
your early convenience.
fours truly ,
Encs.8.9.
[ENCLOSURE]
Samuel Insull ,Esq. , -
New York.
Dear Sir:-
We enclose applications for Patents for improvement
in Phonographs which kindly have executed by Mr .Edison personally
and re turn at your early convenience. Our Australian Patent Agent
writes under date of May 5th as follows
"Eor Queensland.it is necessary that the application and
Declaration shall be personally signed by Mr .Edison to whom please
send on atoonce the enclosed form with a request that he return it
to me direct (when signed and attested) as so doing will save time
probably. The application will go on justlthe same, as I have
given undertaking to file this document before the Patent issues".
Also under date of May 12th, last our Agent wrotes as follows
"The Victorian office of Patents are now acting under a
new act and require the Application and Declaration to be signed
by the Applicant same as with the Queensland office, .of which 1 sent
you the form for signature last weokK.
Please to have the signature attested by a British Consul. and
Notary Public as in former cases. Instructions for signing are
marked in pencil on the documents so that there may be no mistake.
Kindly &re turn same to this office when completed , and oblige,
Yours truly,
• G.N. Mori son,
Secretary.
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I am in receipt of your letters of the
21st and 22nd instant , the former- enclosing letter f ran Mr*. J,
Block, of Moscow, Russia, and the latter, letters from the
Hon* William R> Trescoit and the Hon, Patrick Eagan, Minister
to Chile* which I now return you*
I have had a press copy made of Mr, Block* 3 letter,
• in order to have the same referred to the European Committee-
In reference to the application of Mr, Eagan for a
machine for the use of the National 'University of Chile, if
Mr * Edison and Mr* Insull consider it advisable to grant
the request, I have no objection to doing . so, provided the
machine is not sent until it is perfected in every shape
and that a proper guarantee is given that the machine will
not be used for any other purpose than that specified in the
letter of Mr* Eagan, When these conditions are complied with
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the Secretary will give the proper order for the machine*
Yours, truly.
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phonograph to the National University of Chile • Will you
"kindly informimerj wk'ethenrMn*’SEdi:son has in view any par¬
ticular time when the phonograph should be sent to the Uni-
no doubt
versity, and if soothe Company will be glad to carry out
his wishes ?
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Thomas A'. Edison, Esq.,
Dear Sir:
Referring to tie proposed trust for the stock of
yourself and of Colonel Gouraud in the Edison United Phonograph
Company, I beg to say that Mr. Lord has received from Colonel Gou¬
raud the proper authority for Mr. de Ruyter to take Mr. Lord's
place. Unfortunately, however, Mr. de Ruyter is absent from the
City on a Summer vacation, and the putting of the Stock in trust
cannot be completed until his return. Meantime no harm can happen,
because Mr. Lord'holds Colonel Gouraudts certificates in his own
hand subject to an understanding between him and me prohibiting him
from parting with Gouraud* s stock and prohibiting me from parting
with your stock.
how matt<
myself al
I mention the above in order that you may know
’s stand because I am thinking of going away on a vacation
the end of this month.
Hoping the above will be satisfactory, I remain,
Very truly yours.
THE EDISON MACHINE WORKS.
PRIVATE TELEPHONE LINE.
CONFIRMATION OF MESSAGE.
NOTE— This confirmation should he checked with the original message Immediately on receipt. It will
_ assumed to be correct unless advised to the contrary by telephone.
Name
of Person Sending,
Name of Person Receiving.
Time.
Date
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Mr.Butler
Brown
10.35
Aug. 4th/90‘. rTj
From whom received: Thomas Butler, Esq.,
Edison Laboratory , Orange, N.J.
The following cable was received this morning by ug from London
“Prospectus infringes our rights grossly.
Sour and
Edison General Electric Co.
From whom received:
To whom sent:
A. 0. Tate.
Thomas Butler
Please give me the names of t he member s^,of the Execut
Committee of the Edison United. Phonograph. company.
Answer.
Members of the Executive Committee of the E.U.P.Co.
Mr. Thomas Cochran. '
Mr. Jesse Seligman.
Mr. Thomas Dolan.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison.
Mr. D.O. Mills.
Mr. Samuel Insull;
Col. G.E. Gourand.
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Dear Sir:-
X have your favor of the 7th. inst. «
aud'e reply to Mr. Edison's letter of the 29th,
I shall be glad if you will take thi;
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'aV itl V,e ouBht to De very careful of our position,
the Colonel any opportunity of "getting around" the
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The Auditor of the Edison United Phonograph
Company has finished his inspection of our books and checked every
item in the bills rendered by us against that Company. Shall X
ask the Company for a certificate of approval of the bills, or
■shall I start right in and dun them for money?
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1890. Phonograph - Foreign - Frazar & Company (D-90-57)
This folder contains correspondence relating to phonograph sales
agencies in China and Japan. There are also letters about the presentation
of phonographs to Chinese and Japanese government officials. Most of the
correspondence is by Everett Frazar, Edison’s phonograph agent in China and
Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been filmed. The
following categories of documents have not been filmed: bills of lading for
equipment shipped by the Edison Phonograph Works to China and Japan.
PMK6GRAPH DICrATTOK.
January 25, 1890.
Mr* Edison,- •
E-A 1 atm n,, rJl** Frazar wants to know if you- can use the
wax' samples of which he sont you from Japan, China and Corea?
Referring to the last olause of your letter an page two, li
fear you are under a misapprehension in regard to the position' of
my firm in aonneotion with your valued agenoy Itor this inatrumeht.
We had never considered that we held authority for the disposal
of "rights* eonneoted with -the phonograph, Ve understand thiV
we simply hold fom you the exoluBive right for the introdustidii
and sale of same into those countries upon the following teiiai'*
which have lately been given to me in detail by'Kr. TatS, wiiV*'’
the cost of construction to you of the instrument pltissa royalty
; ..and margin to you of 20 X.'and thl8 ^ fcte'jit present’ inftnnil»e
is.upon the. following ^aaiel Motor mohihes, *45 gold eah£U&-
gather with No, 1 battery of four oelle at $3 eaoh tell or $18
lees 25 % making $9 net for the oomplete battery. Treadle machines
#50 eaoh; eleotrio light attachment machines $55 each, with 20 %
as above^added upon this cost of machines. Same to be delivered
by you free of exprews oharges f.o.f, oars in Orange or Newark*
The ooat of the phono, blanks and musical cylinders Mr,Iate is to ;
furnish me today or tomorrow.
The phonos, are chipped by me to Japan for that ooufltxy and???'
Korea, and to China either by way of Can, Pao, R'y or Suez Canal* . ;
the expense by the former route being about double that of the late ?
ter, Jferin&'-insurano e is also provided by me and duty is payable *
in eaoh country abroad, with certain import oharges and expenses ' *
attached. To these my firms add a moderate sum for profit and ej$-4-
penses inourred; with expert, advertising, traveling &o„ and with
^this moderate profit we are satisfied. Beyond thlB we claim no
rights^ and should not ^n any event take steps to negotiate sel 1
or transfer any rights, otherwise than above, wit tout your special
written instructions, Vill you please bear this in mind and X.
trust it will remove any uncertainties whioh you may now hold in
regard to same. My Japan1 firm never had any Intention o f dis«>
posing of "rights1,* It was simply thatsome of our Japanese u
friends desired to , Joinwith us in fowling a pampany ;to exploit ..the
phonograph in japan, but :we had no intention of eonweyii* ..a**,. . :
rights, -merely that thqr might Join with us in effecting .a much
larger sale by having an interest with us. This matter, It, now ~
-3-
think you are quite safe to leave in my hands to regulate in ao-
oordanoe withqthis present mutual understanding, I believe that
you desire from me only one further premise whieh I herein convey*
viz,; That, on behalf of my firms in Japan and China, Z will agree
that they shall use all due diligenee and hasten the introduetlon
sales and orders for your phonpgraph tot$» very fullest extent
consistent with the ciroumotanoes of this speolal ease, for you
will please bear in mind that, through the utter lash of the prop*
er working of the wax cylinders, my firm has bean unable to sell*
deliver or guarantee a phonograph to the satisfaction of either na¬
tive or foreign purchasers in these markets up to within the past
few months. To the 1st of Jah»y, 1890, we had only been able to
deliver 5 phonographs in Shanghae and four in Japan, I have late¬
ly made further shipments to Shanghae and with the reduoed stock in
Japan will soon have orders for shipments to that country* be
have the best of connections at all the open porta in China, Japan
and in Korea, and I am; safe to assure you that no fine i rathe last
is better situated to introduce successfully and sell largely
_in due course of time than. ours. The exclusive agencies for these
T-oountries I understand you are willing to place with av fine
for the next few years and for suoh definite pwiod later as
mtuaily agreed upon. You will, z know, appreciate the difficul¬
ties we have had through the non working of the phonograph* when X
tell you that for nearly one year we have had a phono* expert in
our employ in Japan and up to Jan*y 1st of this year have been una¬
ble to make any sales worthy of note. The Phonograph Torke have
sent usthree different sets of cylinders, desiring the previous
shipments to be destroyed, knowing that they were imperfeot.
This we have done, A short time ago I sent a quantity of your lat¬
est manufacture and today have ordered another quantity for ship¬
ment toJapan, besides whioh Shanghae has been supplied with both
blank and musioal cylinders within the past few weeks,
1 shall be obliged by your giving me an acknowledgement and
confirmation of this letter in triplicate that I may forwaid a copy
to Messrs. Prazar & Go,, Yokohama and Praaar & 0o„ Shanghae*
1 remain, dear Sir,
Yours very truly.
Pbr~ O- ciu~r^
REPRESENTING;
FRAZAR & 00., 8HANQHAE,
FRAZAR.&,00„ YOKOHAMA,
OANADIAN P'AOJFIO RAILWAY
AND STEAMSHIP LINES
EVERETT FRA2AR,
124 WATER ST.,
New York. Feb, 18th, 1890#
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^ The lates£ report from Yokohama regarding cylinders la as
~ f^lo* at "The' laat oylindera received, although a vast Improvement
: 2 ^Previous ones, have still a few noticeable defects, notably,
i " ^ir brittlenass* We have Pound that unless the brass cylinder
g the int>lde of the wax cylinder are very free from duBt they
l I |ii;i not adh9re other in a proper manner and if a little
| rtPa f0r0e ba used t0 aooowplieh this the wax cracks at the lar-
j | Jer end. Since discovering this we have been more careful, but
St. r- ”0W ,and 868111 11 wil1 haPP0n» Our Japanesepurchasers suffer
y most**
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n> : Presuming that you would like to learn the above and may
•r * h8Ve 8°me r0port t0 “»*• the matter , I give you this informa¬
tion. in case of replying please let me have same in triplicate
on Friday in time for the outgoing mail on that day#
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Representing »
" FRAHAR A 'CO., SHANGHAE,
FRAZAR & 00., YOKOHAMA, •
CANADIAN PAOIFIO RAILWAY
** AND STEAMSHIP LINES.
(JAPAN AND OH INA- AGENCIES.} ■
A, 0. Tate Esq,, > "
Private Secretary, ~ , ’■ %
The Laboratory, Orange. ' - T -j
Dear Sir: . ' '
I have your two favors of Feb. 25th and note your remarks in H
regard to Mr. Edison being still at work improving the phono* cyl¬
inders. I am pleased to see that you expect in a short time to be
able to supply perfect phonograms, from which the defeots mentioned
in the Yokohama letter will be eliminated. Please do not fail to
keep me advised and supply me^th a good quantity of the perfected
cylinders just as soon as they are ready, that I may send same to
both China and Japan. The cylinder obstacle seems now to be the
only one to overcome for the. early and satisfactory introduction
of the phonograph. I can see that it is being appreciated more
and more as time goes on. As soon as these perfected cylinders
can be supplied, I see no reason why we should not increase our or
ders and this we are doing all in our power to effect.
Thanking you for retaining, to be handed to Mr. Bdison on re¬
turn from the south the circular on Progress of Elec, Light) in Jap¬
an, I remain,
Yours very truly,
Representing;
FRAZAR 4 00., SHANQHAE,
. FRAZAR 4,00., YOKOHAMA,
O^NADIAN PAOIFIO RAILWAY
ANDSTEAMSHIP LINES.
EVERETT FRAZAR,
' 124 WATER ST.,
» k ,:r ....New York.
Mar ah §th, 1890*
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Dear Sir* o «' % g g> o-
• learning that |ou jar* onow- re Jy to deliver the' four phdno- '
graphs for official* i*th£Ba|t, I be| to give you the folding
directions for the »!*&. platSa tg bq-put upon the front of each
phono , ? • s g a © o vT ,<■
t His Majesty, f a -i * “
The Emperor of! Japan,'-- ~i X
With Compliments of the Inventor.
" Thomas cA. Bdison, .
His Majesty, '' 4
The King of Korea, -
With Compliments of the Inventor,
Thomas A, Bdison,
His Bxeellenoy, ;jJ
li-Hung-Ohang, 5*;
With Compliments of theilnventor.
Thomas A. Bdison,'^ ' V
His Bxoellenoy,
Tseng-Kuo-Ohuan,
With Compliments of the Inventor,
; Thomas A, Bdison,.
I believe it is Mr,jEBdison»s desire to send the w»iy best of
battery phonos, and it w^ld probably be well to plao«; « little
extra material in the boxes, making them good for cm year's |«r*
▼ice, with an assortment of musical and plain pbonogra** , at your
discretion. Please have them boxed up aa Closely and securely us |
possible and ship as follows: The four $o be delivered at Pier 5
N, R, not later than Friday- of next week, two marked Tracer & #o„rH
Yokohama, B,P,W. Ho, l and No, 2, The above for presentation to 5*
the Brnperor of J apan and King of Korea, The other two tojbe i ' Z ■
marked Frasar & Co,, Shanghae, Nq, X. and Ho, 2, X,P,W, these5 ;t
two for the Chinese officials. All the pa ok ages should bear the
following route marks: per N. Y. 0. & W, to Prescott, o/o C,P,R,p
I shall also require memo, giving the gross weights end measts*
of the paokages. These being presentation phonos* X presume the
freight and expanse of delivering them will be borne by Mr* Sdlson
and I will render an a/o for same in due course. For Mr, ldison*s
protection 1 will cover the above with marine insurance to the val¬
ue of about $100 each, loss, if any, payable to him.
Yours very truly.
P, S,- Please forward with each of the phonos, a number at your
illustrated and instruction pamphletB,
Representing: A^n'- 0 '
FRAZAR 4 CO., SHANGHAE, l . -
FRAZAR & CO., YOKOHAMA,
CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY
AND STEAMSHIP LINES.
New York. XMXKOOlApl.^laty^O.
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Edison Phonograph Works-,
• Orange. •
Dear Sirs:
By Yokohama mail my firm wish to know if the Edison Lalande
battery is the same as the new phono, battery now used by you*
They also ask if it is possible to obtain a phonogram of Grace
Church chimeB, If bo, please send same to this office. Will you
cover the first-point in early mail tomorrow for outward mail on
that day, and oblige.
fst ■'
REPRESENTING:
FRAZAR & 00., SHANGHAI,
FRAZAR St 00., YOKOHAMA,
CANADIAN PAOIFIO RAILWAY
AND STEAMSHIP LINES*
(JAPAN AND CHINA ADEN^S^/-''
I ANO CHINA AGENCjjfoly^ ^
EVERETT FRAZAR,
, H 124 WATER S
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Iew York, April 11th, 1890,
The Laboratory,
Or a n g e.
Dear Sirs:
®y- ?ail from Yokohama 1 have the following query: -
coul/a*a- f®oently ^ad ■“ inquiry as to whether the phonograph
could record the speech of a person addressing a large audienoeanr
foS7^dB nPr°wUOe th° a£Une t0 a aulience so S?Sl
could hear it. We replied that outside of an ordinary room re¬
production, even with the aid of a. large funnel, would Mt be Sat¬
isfactory. Would you kindly make inquiries for us as to how the
aooo“Pll8h0d wlth the aid of some auxiliary: machine,
Sf such i0.??0? °r l0Ud SpeakinG telephone, andthe oost
So attachment. If same is not excessive, send us one. We
do not think there would be any difficulty in getting a record/
but it is the reproduction so as to be heard by a large Lumber of*
people seated in a large building that we do ^ 0*^ ^ Jo ac¬
complish with the ordinary phonograph." V t0 ao
mnr,+bWS-!lnf farthsr> they mention that they have set up for a
month one of the new batteries, and find it work n ,n-
torily, although it has not been used every day. They think it a
question whether the cost and trouble of renewal wir V 7
ifr **«■ «» <«•*»»•. *>» zuiTz
old battery can all be obtained in Japan, which thw +Mn/.m
»« b. with the other, at I2S; T ?^V*e
-VoTSh a
Yours very truly,
Ck:,
Representing
FRAZAR & 00., SHANQHAE,
FRAZAR* CO., YOKOHAMA,
CANADIAN PAOIFIO RAILWAY
AND STEAMSHIP LIN
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FRAZAR & 00„ SHANQHAE,
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OANADIAN PACIFIO RAILWAY
AND STEAMSHIP LINES.
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EVERETT FRAZAR,
124 WATER ST.
New York, June 7th, 1890,
Thos, A, Edison Esq,,
Tiie S a b o r a t
' Orange,
Dear Sir.-:
A friend of mine in Shanghae, Mr. John $ryer, is edit,
publisher of the "Chinese Magazine," a copy of which I send you
herewith. On two of the pages you will notice that the Edison
Phonograph is fully pictured. Mr. Fryer desires mo to call to
your attention the great value of advertisements, in this pamphlet,
as it now has a very large circulation anong the 'better class of
Chinese, amounting to many thousand copied each issue^- : Mr. Fryer
mentions that he has published thi^magazine^at4onside rable ex¬
pense. He desires me to call to your attention the facilities
his magazine offers for bringing all your^ention^ to the notice
of the millions of would-be purchasers, Wifsays that if you hare
Spare blocks with descriptive letter-press matter that you could
send him, he would be much pleased to receive same. X may men¬
tion that Mr. Fryer’s N. Y. agent for this Magazine and its ad¬
vertisements is Mr. Ralph Waggoner, .lO^S^ol st., N. Y. I shall
be pleased if you will address him a lettered send such spare
blocks as you may deem best, authorizing certain advertisements to
bo inserted for you. Ple ase let me. know whence is done, with
copy of your letter to Mr. Waggoner, ’
Yours very truly,
Representing:
FRAZAR & 00., SHANQHAE,
FRAZAR & 00., YOKOHAMA,
OANADIAN PACIFIC? RAILWAY
AND STEAMSHIP LINES.
EVERETT FRAZAR,
124 WATER ST.
J York, Jww 14th, 1890,
A. 0. Tate Esq.,
The Laboratory, .
Orange.
Dear Sir:
i 1 llav0 your three favors of the 9th Inst ami
the -Peaking teleph^el aieo^ha? it SS/SSt
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sale of ours, which is most discouraging after the tlle^teLht!
and expense we have spent. ™ ****• trouble,
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fro. £s^sl*£ *tgsos:»rsnMS ss fs«r
s mritZiz ?£*■ ~
London please oonfer with him »„ C ■■ Fetmore h— ™>t ret left
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not see any chance of doing business ynn -.-.f r™ ••"“•t. we do
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.ration no. given hy Shqngfcn. i. quit. ranS£j“o*£j;'. *“
-2- »jf .
I would like a prompt answer in this matter and meanwhile
await the report of Mr. Vetmore (to whom I have eabled
;leavea London for New York today ,
*»," W you oan now fill my order for 1864 blank
cylinders , - ,new -type . , t
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FRAZAR & 00 , SHANGHAE,
FRAZAR & 00., YOKOHAMA,
oana'dian paoifio railway
AND STEAMSHIP LINES.
EVERETT FRAZAR, *
New York, June 28th, 1890.
Thos. A. Edison Bsq», K
Orange. p S
Dear Sir* ^ J
Inclosed I beg to hand you clipping- from this morning’s
•New York Sun,* regarding the presentation7 ofjthe phonograph sent
by you to the Mikado of Japan, through ny firm as your representa¬
tives in that empire.
By late mail my partner, Mr, Lindaley, writes me that the
Trinity ohime cylinders and trumpet which I have lately sent him-,,
will be found very acceptable with their phonographs. They regret
not having had them a little earlier to use with the presentation
maohine to the Mikado, who, Mr, LindBley says, has aooepted the
gift;^and it is not unlikely that you will reoelve in return a Jap¬
anese orderj) This, of course, I mention to you privately, and lat¬
er on some acknowledgement will undoubtedly be made.
I have your favor of the 27th inst. and note that contain mat¬
ters are pending for adjustment with the Bdison united Phonograph
Oo., causing you to cease filling my orders for phonographs and
phonograph supplies for use in China and Japan Just for the pres¬
ent. I sincerely hope that this will be but temporary, as X have
lately had several orders from China by cable , and a portion of
same I know have been sold for future delivery there. Please, there
HZ’ w?tTm!hJLTUer ttdJtt!t8d “ Sickly as possible and qosnmni-
oate^with me again, as promised in the letter now under acknowledge
Believe me, .dear Sir,
Yours very truly,
fifa-KO - _
Alfred 0. Tate Esq.,
% T. A. Edison Esq.,
Edison's Laboratory,
Orange, N.J.
Dear Sir
We have examined again the correspondence left by you
with pur Mr. Lewis last wedc, consisting of a letter addressed by
you dated May 13, 1890 to Mr. Instill; the letters addressed by
Mr. Edison to Mr. Eraser under date of ' Jan. 25th and -Feb. 7th 1890
respectively, and a letter addressed by Mr. ITA^er to Mr. Edison
dated Jan. 31st, 1890. We have examined these letters in the
light of the proposed agreement for Japah drawn b y our mt. Eaton,
in January of this year, and we are of opinion upon a survey of the
whole situation, that jjfr. Edison is under no obligations to con¬
tinue the business .relations wjth Mr. Eraser and his firms, under¬
taken some months ag> and in reference to which the correspondence
above recited took place.
In his letter of Jan. 25th* 1890, Mr, Edison distinctly
disavows hisinteption of making an ^elusive contract for 'a. term
of years with Mr. draper’s fi*m, and although Mr. Eraser in his
reply dated Jan. 31st mekes use of the following language
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"•The exclusive agencies for those countfcies I understand you
are willing to place with my firm for the next few years, and for
such definite period later as may be mutually agreed upon", yet
it is to be remanbered that in his reply dated Feb. 7th Mr. Edison
calls attention to his letter of Jan. 25th in which he says, that
he specifically states the only terms upon which he would be justi¬
fied in giving exclusive rights to any one.
We think upon the papers as they stand that Mr. Edison
is under no obligation to continue his relations with Mr. Eraser.
Representing
FRAZAR Sc 00., SHANQHAE,
FRAZAR Sc 00., YOKOHAMA,
OANADIAN PACIFIO RAILWAY
EVERETT FRAZAR,
124 WATER S
Thos, A, Bdiaon Esq.,- C'AL>~C. '> fc-OwS 1 — -
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Orange,
Dear Sir: °.e* Q^' p . 1 /TV . . ,
j f h™d y°u °§&'^veTt^ your address flom'the^^]
Japanese Minister for Fore igrTAf fairs, Tokio, Mr. Aoki dated Juno r '
n8Hhi’R°^nVeylngAdire0t t0 y0U from H* M* the Emperor, hla tharl^
and high appreciation upon receipt of the phonograph. from you, %
Ta thr0UEh thS hends of my JaPan firm as your agents, I al- '
hold^o i°Tter fr°m'the Se°,y 0f the ****** House-
hold to ny firm dated Juno 23rd #
+„ han^you herein a, letter from my Shanghae firm with let¬
ters (copies) from Hon, Ghas, Denby, U. s. Minister n+
dated May 21st, and from Mr.*C. D. Temy,'TTentsin^ May
nSuh to HlnEet8?^Hnby T°eara t0 the Presentation of the pho- '
H ^ P t H*vE*’p.w.i Hunfi Chang, The phonograph intended for
?,*?•! TaB!nS ?U° ^h*1®11 would be delivered to him through an offi-
+ht+ 1 am^iven to understand by my Shanghae firm
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. Yours very 'truly.
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Name of Person Receiving.
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July. .29, 1890...
From whom received: A. 0. Tate, Esq. ,
To whom sent: Samuel Insull,Esq.
We have been holding a cheek of Frazer's for $500 pending
the settlement with the United Company. Can we use it? I don't
believe that holding it will make any difference in settling with
the United Company.
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terview with Seligman. X believe the latter intends having Frazar
organize a Company for China and Japan.
Representing:
FRAZAR &
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00..8HANGHAE,
EVERETT FRAZAR,
AND STEAMSHIP LINES 124 WATER ST., /,
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C Mai, aon of 1,1 Hung Chang, th« Viceroy of Chihli. This
l..«r is dated fros, the Viceroy’. Y„e», Tient.in, JlM ^
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1890. Phonograph - North American Phonograph Company -
General (D-90-58)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
business of the North American Phonograph Co. and to the technical
development of phonographs and cylinders. Included are numerous circular
letters to local Edison phonograph companies concerning company policies
and technical matters. There is also material regarding the sale of coin-
operated phonographs and the lawsuit filed against the North American
Phonograph Co. by the Automatic Phonograph Exhibition Co. Much of the
correspondence is by Thomas R. Lombard, vice president of the company, and
by Sherburne B. Eaton, Edison’s personal attorney.
Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been filmed. The
following categories of documents have not been filmed: routine letters and
circulars to local Edison phonograph companies concerning the ordering,
shipping, and leasing of phonographs and phonograph parts; inventory lists;
duplicate copies of selected items; documents that duplicate information in
selected material.
Related material can be found in D-90-52 (Phonograph - Automatic
Phonograph Exhibition Company).
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T. A. Edison, Esq.,
Doai’ Sir:-
SotiTOon m ana °l ‘h° “I!-”0“'*,"‘
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tiler are oxwl/SUyott*an”°o bliSo'° °“l030‘l -Sroomonts after
Very truly yours
The North American Phonograph Company,
160-164 Broadway, New York,
Messrs. Spencer Tr,<sk & Co.,
16-18 Broad Street, City:
in T''~In C.0mplianc,e with the request that I should give you full information
,.f: d t0 the or&anlzation of the North American Phonograph Company, its history,
condition and prospects, 1 respectfully submit the following : '
for the TT Td° waf organized in October, 1888. It acquired by purchase ownership
irnnh , ‘, 0 Stat“ and Canada of 8,1 of Mr- Thomas A. Edison's patents on the Phono
f-nmnn e*clusi,ve aScncy from ‘he sole licensee of the American Graphophone
Sr A BeliTnd A mS T PnT ^ U"ited StatCS°f CharIes Sumner Tainter, Chiches-
‘ ™d Alexander Graham Bell on the Graphophone. By uniting the affairs of
beeiltoidednangHath r Graphophone under one management, all paten! litigation has
been avoided, and the Company has secured to itself the sole and exclusive right to furnish
machines capable of receiving and reproducing the human voice and other sounds.
devntpIannor0prdann 'V*- 1 “ C°nt.r:lct made between this Company and Mr. Edison, he is to
Ptono^reDh AM " dunnS tha Iife of the Patenta to the further development of the
oronerfv nP ■? “ lmprov“s ™de a™ to accrue to the benefit and will become the
ments lnth?GranhmPt,any' T.he ComPany will also receive the benefit of any improve-
phone CompanyaPh Ph°ne made ^ EXpertS in the cmpl°y of ‘he American Grapho-
r.m.Jmme^telyafter ^ f°rmation ot ‘his Company, steps were taken to organize sub-
Sm^d w th antr. ‘ * Un!!°? ?**"• There are sub-Companies.
„™ d' wlTth f. aS®atc capital of about $20, 000,000, practically covering the entire
?ese sub-Companies, theNorth American Phonograph
Company received in cash §828,267, and is to receive a further sum of $283,733 in payment
Sm S^ ^:?he^eCtiVe t.erritories panted to the various sub-Companies,
running five years, and, in addition, received, or is to receive from Trustees who now hold
i^addition8' tof°th'hetheneflt °f uh'S C°mpany' «t-4«>.ooo of the stock of the sub-Companies.
In addHion to this, there has been or will be deposited with the Central Trust Company,
Trustee, to be delivered to the North American Phonograph Company at the end of five
Compands willtrecIilnOUS ’T' ?0mpalVes to the amount of 84,100,000 For this the sub-
Companies will receive an extension of their exclusive license for nearly ten years more.
leased To t^° ^menC-n PhonoSraPh Company owns all of the machines, and they: are
n turn kase at a rental °[ •*> a year for each one, and the sub-Companies
Yre°ayeur t0 the public'and ^ required to keep the machines in
fnsures fo the Pare dt rn renta,f the terms of the contract with the sub-Companies
nsures to the Parent Company a considerable profit in the furnishing of supplies necessary
for the operation of the machines. The experience of this Company indicates that this
may reach an average of $10 a machine for each year.
Though this Company was organized in October, 1888, and the formation of some of
the local Companies quickly followed, the first small installment of machines was not ready
to be put upon the market until May, 1889. While these original machines accomplished
all that had been promised of them, and were substantially the same as those shown and
used in the formation of the sub-Compariies, a practical trial at the hands of com¬
mercial subscribers suggested the desirability of certain improvements, particularly in the
direction of greater simplicity of mechanism in order to attain at once the greatest ease of
manipulation and the widest and most popular use.
Mr. Edison, upon his return from Europe, in August last, practically reconstructed
the Phonograph, greatly simplifying it. The Graphophone Company also made valuable
improvements, but pending these changes in the machines the local Companies generally
relaxed their efforts for new subscribers. • ' . ■
The output of new machines and their exchange for the originals was not begun until
November last, so that the local Companies have had for about only ninety days a machine
to offer to the public, which, in addition to accurately recording and reproducing speech,
has the simplicity and durability which, according to the testimony of those who use this
labor-saving device in their daily business, make it entirely practical.
The number of machines outstanding now is 6,275. At the present time we
are delivering to the sub-Companies machines at the rate of sixty a day. If no greater
ratio of. machines are distributed during the balance of 1890 than have been distributed
since May, 1889, we .will have outstanding and under rental January 1, 1891, in the neigh-
hood of 17,000 machines. Our estimate, however, is that with the improved machines, and
the growing interest in the business all over the United States and the well-understood
fact that every machine in successful use creates a demand for others, by the 1st of January,
1891, there will be in actual use in this country from 26,000 to 30,000 machines. The more-
recently organized Companies are meeting with better success than 'the older ones; this is
accounted for by the fact that they have had to do with the improved simple machine. To
illustrate, the Texas Phonograph Company, which did not commence business until
November last, has, nevertheless, since that .time had shipped to them over 300 machines,
that they assure us are going under rental as rapidly as received. '
Competent mechanics are of the opinion that the present Phonograph and Phono-
graph-Graphophone are so perfect in their construction that with slight repairs and proper
...attention they can be used for fifteen years or more. ,
It is expected that this Company will realize a handsome sum from the formation of
the sub-Company in Canada.
By contract with the Edison Toy Manufacturing Company in Boston, this Company
will receive a royalty of 25 per cent, on the cost of all phonographic apparatus used in
dolls, the minimum amount of which shall not in any year fall below $10,000. The royalty
received from this source will be divided, 'one-half remaining with the Parent Company,
and the other half being distributed among the local Companies.
There are a number of new features independent of the practical or commercial use
of the machine that will undoubtedly yield considerable revenue. Among these, Phono¬
graphs for exhibition purposes, which are leased at $25 per month. We have not as yet
paid much attention to the amusement features, for the reason that we wished first to
demonstrate the practical uses of the machines, and after that was fully established, we
expected to develop other features in connection with them.
The North American Phonograph Company paid its first semi-annual dividend of
3 percent, in August, 1889; a dividend will be declared at the same rate in the coming
month, February. Looking at the business from the most conservative standpoint, and say¬
ing that by the end of this year we have 17,000 machines under rental, it would still
indicate that the continuance of the payment of the dividends was assured. The income
from 17,000 machines in rentals and profits on supplies will be in round figures $510,000.
This sum would be practically net profit, and applicable to dividends, the only charges
against it being the running expenses of the North American Company, which are practi¬
cally covered by a few salaried officers, office rent, clerical hire, and from, three to five
traveling men going around among the different sub-Companies.
I submit the following financial statement :
The North American Phonograph Company is incorporated under the laws of the
State of New Jersey, with a capital stock of 66,600,000, divided into 66,000 shares, each of
the par value of S100, full paid, and non-assessable.
For a consideration of 66,000 shares the Company acquired its patent rights, 6,000
shares of which have been put in the hands of Trustees for the future use and benefit
of the Company if needed.
Besides the 61,400,000 par value of local Campanies’ stock, either delivered to or
held for the benefit of the Company, and the $4,000,000 additional stock of local companies,
either delivered or to be delivered in five years, and the Canadian Phonograph Patents, the
available assets of the Company are shown by the following:
There are no other outstanding liabilities of this Company except on a manufacturing
contract, which is limited to $106,500, and will be offset by delivery of machines.
In view of the interest your friends will have through this subscription, I request -
that you name two members for the board of direction.
Very truly yours,
Jesse FI. Lippincott,
President.
Providence, January 20, 1890.
Messrs. bPENCER Trask & Co. :
Dear Sirs,— I have examined, at your request, the several letters patent relating to
the Edison phonograph, and also the several letters patent relating to the graphophone,
with the view of ascertaining whether the fundamental patents for the phonograph and the
graphophone cover essentially the method and practical apparatus for recording and
reproducing sounds, including articulate speech.
I understand that all machines constructed for use in this country and Canada under
the phonograph and graphophone patents are, under existing contracts between the par¬
ties, now under the control of the North American Phonograph Company.
The important inquiry is, whether the underlying patent to Edison, No. 200,521,
dated February 19, 1878, for the phonograph, and the underlying patent to Bell &
Taintor, No. 341,214, dated May 4, 1886, for the graphophone, practically cover and con¬
trol the whole art. The many patents subsequently taken by the parties in interest relate
to improvements upon the original ideas expressed in the patents, Nos. 200,521 and 341,214.
It will be unnecessary to consider such subsequent patents in detail, the important con¬
sideration being, whether the underlying patents mentioned control the art.
The Edison patent of February 19, 1878, absolutely stands at the head of the art for
recording sounds, including articulate speech, and retranslating such record at pleasure
back into sounds or speech. There is no suggestion in any prior patents or publications
which have come to my knowledge, of the discovery set forth in the said Edison patent
or any suggestion of an apparatus which would embody such discovery.
The rule which applies to the interpretation of primary patents, or those which
stand at the head of a discovery in the arts, has been recently established emphatically bv
the Supreme Court of the United States, and that rule is this: that wherever an inventor
or discoverer has struck out an entirely new path, by discovering a law of nature or of
physics, and has utilized it in some practical way for the benefit of man, the broadest inter¬
pretation m favor of his invention against parties coming subsequently into the art as im¬
provers of the apparatus in the same, is given in favor of such primary inventor, and those
coming after him are held tributary. Various decisions of the Supreme Court have indi-
cated, through a series of years, this rule, but it was expressly formulated in the case of the
Morley Sewing Machine Company vs. Lancaster, 129 U. S., 263. The Court, in announcing
its decision and judgment in this case, affirmed the following cases, which embody sub¬
stantially the same principle, although their expression is not as unqualified and positive
as m the case to which I have referred : McCormick vs. Talcott, 20 Howard, 402; Rail¬
way Co. vs. Sayles, 97 U. S., 554; Clough vs. Parker, 106 U. S., 1 66; Consolidated Valve
Co. vs. Crosby Valve Co., 1 13 U. S., 157; Tilghman vs. Proctor, 102 U. S., 707.
The broad doctrine applicable to the Edison patent, No. 200,521, cannot be better
expressed than by quoting the language of Mr. Justice Bradley in one of the cases above
“ If one inventor precedes all the rest, and strikes out something which includes and
underlies all that they produced, he acquires a monopoly and subjects them to tribute.”
In my opinion, this is the status of the Edison patent, No. 200,521, of February 19
1878. It was the first suggestion of the possibility of converting articulate speech into a
permanent graphical representation of the same corresponding in a general way with the
forms of the soiiatic waves, and then reproducing; at will such speech by reconverting such
graphical expressions of the same into sound.
The letters patent to Bell ifc Taintor, No. 341,214, dated May 4, 1S86, while based
upon the prior invention of Mr. Edison, are in my opinion most important as exhibiting an
improvement in the apparatus by which the discovery of Edison could be utilized, which
places this patent in a most important relation to the art. It is unnecessary to deal in
detail with this patent further than to say that it proposed to employ a register made of
some suitable material, upon the surface of which the graphical representation of the sound
waves should be formed by sharply cutting into the register the lines corresponding with
the transmitted sound. The improvement which is embodied in this patent is practically,
in my opinion, of great value in producing satisfactory apparatus to exhibit the funda¬
mental discovery of Edison. While, indeed, upon the expiration of the Edison patent, the
general discovery will be open to the public to use at its pleasure for commercial purposes,
the invention set forth in the Bell & Taintor patent will prolong, in my opinion, practically
the monopoly.
The only matter of which I know, or which has been brought to my attention as
bearing at all upon the subject of the discovery of Mr. Edison, is a publication contained
in the Bulletin of the National Society for the Encouragement of Industry in France.
This publication merely exhibits a capacity of the apparatus described therein to record
graphically articulate speech or other sounds. The apparatus was analogous to a device
for a similar purpose already known in the mechanic arts, of which the Watts indicator, for
the purpose of graphically indicating in a diagram a figure from which the power of the
steam engine could bo calculated, is a familiar illustration. No further use was made of
this apparatus than to exhibit to the eye a representation of the movements of the stylus
under the varying influences and pressures of the human voice controling the movements
of the stylus. The invention of Edison was quite different from this. He may, indeed,
have used this old idea for the purpose of obtaining a record, but so far as I know, or have
been advised, or believe, he was the first person to conceive the idea that such graphical
expressions of sound could be reconverted into speech, and this discovery is the marvel of
the phonograph.
Mr. Edison, as well as Bell & Taintor and Alexander Graham Bell, have taken a
large number of patents in the aggregate since the date of the original Edison patent,
February 19, 1878. All these several patents relate to improvements in the apparatus for
developing and exhibiting the discovery. It is unnecessary to examine into the history of
each of them and to compare them with anything which precedes, because they are only
preceded by themselves. The whole art, in its original conception, as in its development,
is, as I understand, expressed in this body of patents, the benefit of which is vested in the
North American Phonograph Company. Hence, an investigation into them individually,
which might become necessary under other circumstances, becomes entirely unimportant
in the present condition.
I am therefore of opinion, that the body of patents relating to the phonograph and
the graphophone, which are merely different names for apparatus to display the same
grand discovery, cover the whole subject of recording speech and reproducing the record
back into speech, to an extent that in my experience I have never known paralleled.
I have also examined, at your request, the agreement between Thomas A. Edison
and Jesse H. Lippincott, of June 28, 1888; the agreement between Lippincott and the
North American Phonograph Company, of July 17, 1888, and the agreement of Edison
with the North American Phonograph Company and with Lippincott, of August I, 1888.
The first named of these agreements recites that the corporation, the Edison Phonograph
Company, is the owner of the Edison phonograph patents, and that the Edison Phonograph
Works has the exclusive right to manufacture phonographs under a contract between it
and Edison, and for a consideration therein named Mr. Lippincott agrees to purchase the
entire capital stock of the Edison Phonograph Company, with the exception of one hun¬
dred and fifty shares. These one hundred and fifty shares, as I am advised, have now also
been acquired by Mr. Lippincott. The agreement contemplates that the American Phono¬
graph Company shall be formed by Mr. Lippincott within a limited period, and, in fact,
as I am advised, this part of the agreement has been executed by the organization of the
North American Phonograph Company. On the other hand, Mr. Edison agrees, under
certain conditions named in the contract, to transfer the entire capital stock of the Edison
Phonograph Company, with the exception of the one hundred and fifty shares mentioned.
The second agreement, of July 17, 18S8, between Lippincott and the North
American Phonograph Company, after reciting the fact that he is the owner of rights
under the various Edison patents, and the patents to Bell & Taintor and to A. G. Bell,
provides that Lippincott shall sell and transfer all the rights which he has, or may there¬
after acquire, under the patents and inventions of Edison, and generally ail rights in the
subject-matter of phonographs and graphophones, to the North American Phonograph
Company, for a consideration to be paid to him in capital stock of said company, and it
also contains a covenant of further assurance to more fully effectuate and carry out, if
necessary, the true intent of the agreement, so as to vest in the company all the rights,
property, privileges and license acquired by Lippincott.
The third agreement between Edison, the North American Phonograph Company,
and Lippincott, specifies certain provisions under which the machine shall be put upon
the market. The important clause, however, in the provision is, that Edison agrees to
convey any invention or improvement made by him on the subject of the phonograph
within a period of fifteen years, to the North American Phonograph Company without
further compensation.
All these above-mentioned agreements contain various provisions relating to the
business matters in which the parties are interested, but which do not affect at all the ques¬
tion of the validity of the rights under the phonograph and graphophone patents vested in
the North American Phonograph Company. I have directed my attention simply to the
question whether under the existing agreements the control of the rights to use and dis¬
pose of machines under the patents relating to the phonograph and the graphophone will
become vested in the North American Company on the performance of the contract stipu¬
lations contained in said agreements. In my opinion, if the conditions specified in such
agreements are performed, the control of such rights under the patents relating to both the
phonograph and the graphophone will become lawfully vested in the North American
Phonograph Company.
I am informed by Messrs. Witter & Kenyon, who are counsel for Lippincott and for
the North American Phonograph Company, that all the conditions as to the payment of
the consideration for the rights under the Edison phonograph patents have been fully
performed, with the exception of the final payment of about sixty thousand dollars by Mr.
Lippincott, which is to be paid on the first day of April next.
The general chain of title to the graphophone patents appears, from copies submit¬
ted to me of the agreements, to be as follows: The title to the patents is vested in the
VoltaGmphophonc Company of Alexandria. The American Graphophone Company was
organized by certificate of incorporation on the 15th of Mav 1887 nnrl tn *1,1= ^ S
the Volta Graphophone Company granted an exclusive license u/make and sell graphT
phones. Subsequently, on March, 26, .888, the American Graphophone C If !
agreement with Jesse H. Lippincott, granted to him the right to sell and use in Z l7’-t7
States and Canada all the graphophone instruments and supplies manufactured bv'the
•fnrtlr'r GraPh°Ph?nc ComPa"y. with the exception of the States of Illinois Wisconsin
and Michigan. Lippincott, under the agreement before referred to with the North Ameri
henind°nn,TP,7mPrifnr' °f J‘7 7’ *888, granted to said company all thcfjhts wh"h
t follows tf f 7 MCr7f Ar acqulrc'n Vlrtue of the agreement of March 26, .888, whereby
it follo.vs that the North American Phonograph Company have the sole right of using and
placing the machines manufactured and delivered to them by the American Graohonhonn
Company On the 6th of August, .888, a supplemental agrcemeiif * made £“en the
American Graphophone Company and Jesse H. Lippincott, whereby a prior agreement
between lum and the company was enlarged so as to enahle him *T °, ? ,lent
phonc7rafh C07an}’’1aS assiSnee> 10 deal with phonograph instruments as well'as mrapho"
fn this instrumeM fromhlPri°r **re*?eat. P"*ludlng him, until the modification expressed
m this instrument, from dealing in other instruments than the graphophone.
ar**- * rr in ,h zs JSW5 ci“” "e“
.1. ot the conditio., ol the novel net,™, „p,„ X
-amlSSpZiSrm,,° *• *"* h “•'»> -r—s tw-
Inventions made by Mr. Edison subsequent to August i i8ss 7™ i„ u
to the North American Phonograph Company. S ' , are to be conveyed
Very respectfully,
BENJ. F. THURSTON.
EATON & LEWIS
T. A. Edison,
Dear Sir:
/(&((///■{ EQUITABLE I
t<XS '
yf'r-ie/ ■^■7yi^Ammry_25.x_i&90
v/s*
I beg to hand you enclosed duplicate copies of an agree¬
ment which I have prepared and which has been executed by alf of
%hB^et° °xoept V^self, dated 31st ult,, renewing Mi-.
Lippmcott s note and extending the security.-
, . ml1 you kindly execute the enclosed duplicate copies of
the said agreement and return them to me.
Please excuse my printed signature.
Very truly yours,
Dictated to and Trai
ribedfrom the Phonograph.
314 Broadway, New York, January 30th, 1890.
Messrs. Spencer Trask & Co.,
16 & iS Broad Street,
New York.
Gentlemen: —
Nnrt-h A • J n°tlCe tHat y°U arC °fferinf»r by advertisement the stock of the
North American Phonograph Company to the public. Inasmuch as there are many
people who do not quite understand the uses of the Phonograph and the Graphophone
.may serve a good purpose if I should say to you that from practical experience I
ns.der these machines of the greatest possible value. For an overworked business
n hhe myself I cons.der that no greater boon could be furnished, than to have be-
s.de him a s.lent but ever ready receptacle for what he has to dictate or sav I am
usmg one of the Phonographs in my own house, and often when I am pressed with
correspondence or with some literary work, I turn to it and dictate what I have to
convey to my fr.ends, then bringing the cylinders to the City with me an exoert
typewriter interpret, their eontenh,. A, my ,M. « my b„,h«, ln the A , G„ '
phone ,, ,h,d„ read,, and the pile, of aorreapondenaa which crowd my deck
disposed of in no time at all. >
I look forward to the period when one-half the correspondence of the country
will be not only dictated to the Phonograph, but absolutely conveyed by cylinders in
boxes through the mails from one part of the country to the other.
. f ,!t,Wi!1 n0t be l0ng before every hotel wi» have a half-dozen of these machines
hi“ "'k' and f°r 3 mere trifle bUy aCyIinder’ transm't by mail
There is no limit to the use of this useful addenda and instrumentality of busi-
ness. Like many other things in this age in the line of invention, one can double
their capacity for usefulness and. achievement. I am glad to be able to bear this tes¬
timony of a practical nature to the usefulness of the great device, the stock in which
you are now offering, and to say that this is an entirely voluntary, statement of my
Yours truly,
Erastus Wiman.
Circular Latter, # SI.
0FZFUGE 0FI
5Phe ^®pfeh Pmepiean Fhsipgpapfy (£©.,
and Je^e B. Iiippineett, §©le liieeasee ©£ fehe
flmepieaH Spaph©ph©^e S,©^f
TE"Ie"°jOHN.»LL' 160, 162 & 164 BROADWAY, X //
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To the Phonograph Companies.
Gentlemen:-
xs«r “/‘xrrv- ”“**s »* «
Sr iV-;- *•
iouna rauat with the quality of many of the records. Wp nvo
Yours very truly,
The Wort h^Agpri can Phonograph C(
0BFZIGB 0fl
5Phe $®rth JlmepiGaH Ih©ipgi?apfy (£©.,
and Jesse R Ilippmeefefe, §©Ie IsieeRSee ©$ fehe
Fmeni©an Bpaph®ph©^e (2©.,
TE“9e"°OHN.”LL' 160> 162 & 164 BROADWAY,
INew TJork,.
To the Phonograph Companies.
Gentlemen:- %
. . We 1,3 ve had Sequent col^ia'ints to the effect that
the recording needle or stylus upon the phonograph-graphophone
savsmthffJ Very qUiCkly With constant «>«• One of our inspectors
says that by covering the end of the finger with a piece of chamois
skin, rubbing it lightly into a little flour of em j-y, and then
S iyMrUb,blne stylus rrom heel to point upon the back,' or
straight edge’ , that in a few minutes it can be sharpened as per-
tir^s bTfor ThiS °P0rati0n oan be repeated a number of
Z* J)eiCOmss t0° much V<>rn for further use. Great care
must be taken not to dent the reoorder diaphragm. These dia-
phragms can be removed by means of a special wrench made for tte
purpose by the American Graphophone Company.
Yoursnvery truly,
THE NORTH AMERICAN ^PHONOGRAPH 00.
Per ,
Circular letter # 22.
TO THE PHONOGRAPH COMPANIES.
Gentlemen :
We haue discovered that, while the Phonograph may leave the
factory perfectly adjusted so as to record the faintest sound, yet, when it gets
into the hands of the user it sometimes fails to work as well. In looking for the
cause it was found that for the best results it is necessary that the spring holding
the feed nuts on to the screw shaft should be at a proper tension, for when the
tension is the least bit too great it tends to slightly lift the diaphragm arm and
thereby cause the recording stylus to be placed at a wrong angle for recording.
In the packing and transportation of the machines, it is not unlikely that this
adjustment may become deranged, but it can be easily remedied by observing the
following directions :
Loosen the diaphragm arm from the back carriage sleeve by unscrewing
the large screw, which is situated at back of arm and at left of back lever of
cutting off knife, then bring the diaphragm arm down as if to record, and see
that front lever is down, then take a sheet of writing paper and fold it, making
two thicknesses, and place it between the diaphragm arm and straight edge in
front i then, while holding the arm in position with one hand, take hold of the
spring bar on which feed-nuts are fastened, and bring it down until the nuts set
firmly on the screw shaft, and see that the threads engage. Then screw the back
screw into position again, draw out the paper, and you will see that the spring
has the necessary tension. We think if you will try this you will find the record
to be perfectly satisfactory.
Yours very truly,
THE NORTH AMERICAN PHONOGRAPH CO.
The ^©Pt5h JlFHepieen I?h©i2©gpapfy Q®., ■■■
j aH^ Je^e & Iiippme©fefe, §©Ie liieengee ©5 fehe
H®epi©aH Spaph©ph©^e G©.,
160, 162 & 164 BROADWAY,
INew ^UorkT . March 7th. . 'IRQfi
TELEPHONE CALL,
The New Jersey Phonograph Co.,
Newark, N. J.
Gentlemen:-
- 1?’hls Company' is for the present (instead of diming ren¬
tals for all machines delivered to you as per clause five of oir
agreement) pursuing the policy of only claiming one-half of the ren
may be due on this account to US lrarae<3iately whatever
regular monthly remittances until further not ice’ fUtUr® Send
.ae°!h"‘ °y;“”aer* *M°» i^xMbf.lSrS’lfSMlob
Yours very truly,
THE NORTH AMERICAN PHONOGRAPH COMPANY.
Transcribed from the PHONOGRAPH.
0FFZIGB 0P
JFhe Rerth J?mepi©aH ^©^©p©^ G©.,
and Jesse i. liippine©fefe, §©le Iiieensee ©5 fehe
flmepiean Spaph©ph©^e G©.,
160, 162 & 164 BROADWAY,
IKeW ^ork, _ March 13, 'ISQQ.
TELEPHONE O.
New Jersey Phonograph Company,
#758 Broad St., Newark, N. J.
Gentlemen:-
Yours of the 11th containing resolution adopted at the
meeting of your Directors on the 3rd inst. was duly received, and
the same has had our careful consideration.
It would undoubtedly be of very great advantage to the
phonograph if we had a less fragile cylinder than the one we are
now furnishing. To this end Mr. Edison and several of his employes
have been experimenting ever since last Pall. Up to the present
time, they have not been successful: we sincerely hope, however,
that in the near future they will be.
In regard to the foot attachment for starting and stopping
the phonograph, the machine as originally manufactured had this
attachment but on account of the criticisms of the users thereof
it was abandoned. You will readily see how difficult it is to get
any device for starting and stopping the phonograph that will meet
the approval of all the users. At the present tine nany of them
do not want anything but the lever; others want the keys similar to
those used on the graphophone and now it seems some of your people
want the f oot att achme nt .
Very truly yours,
0RRIGB 0R
Jphe ^©pfeh pmepi©aH Fh@^©gpap^ (£©.,
and Jesse 1. Iiippim©©fet3, §®Ie Lsieensee ©i tshe
J3mei?i©an (apaphsph©^© (£©.,
160, 162 & 164 BROADWAY,
TELEPHONE C
INew TJork, . May 20th. ,
J890.
To The Phonograph Companies.
Gentlemen: -
We beg to inform you that orders for phonogram
blanks now .entered with us and those received hereafter will be
filled with' the new style cylinder. These cylinders are made as
long as the phonograph will conveniently accomodate and are of a
uniform length. , . The wax used is virtually the same as the old
style, but being made upon a thread and composition base, the chances
°f breakage., are largely reduced as compared with the blanks for-
me rl y “turn i she d •
It is our intention to furnish rubber sleeves; one of which is
to bo placed on the brass mandrel of the phonograph and to remain
there permanently. Over this the now blank is slipped. ' A suffi¬
cient quantity of these rubber sleeves will be sent you to equip
phonographs you now have under rental, as shown by your monthly re¬
port, to us. A little later on, when we have been able to accumulate
a stock of the sleeves, we will furnish you with extra ones to sup¬
ply new subscribers for the phonograph.
a
Yours very truly,
THE NORTH AMERICAN PHONOGRAPH COMPANY.
Per.
Circular Letter $27.
0RFHGB . 0B
JFhe ^©pfeh flm0piean Bhsigsgrapli S@.,
and Je&se R Liip)p>m<s@t2li, §©le Iiiaensee ©5 fehe
flmepiaan Spaph©ph©^e S©.,
TE"|6“°john.»LL’ 160> I02 & 164 BROADWAY,
.INew V) ork, _ June llth., _ i Sg(
To the Phonograph Companies,
Gentlemen:-
We desire to call your attention to the f£ct that a
great deal of matter can be put on a phonogram blank by running t'he
speed of the machine dovm as low as possible, The writer use^ h-is
machine at the revolution of 05 with very good results, still lower
speed is obtainable on some machines, but we think from 65 to 70 is
about the average low speed, of the machine, and you will see that it
materially increases the capacity of the cylinder for dictation. We
suggest that you experiment in this line and inform your customers
of the fact, so that greater satisfaction may be given to them in the
use of the machine for dictation purposes.
We shall alv/ays be pleased to receive from the Companies any
suggestions that they may make in regard to experiments that they
have tried, which tehd to improve the machines for the purposes for
which they are intended.
Circular Letter No. 29.
SFhe fysipfeh flmepisan Fh§r^®gpapl^ S©.,
and Jesse H. Iiippin©®feli, §®Ie Iiiaensee ®f fehe
Pmepisan Bpaph®ph®r2e
160, 162 & 164 BROADWAY,
INew ork,_ . June 19th.,
TELEPHONE C
To The Phonograph Companies,
Gentlemen:-
uv/mfr to the extreme destruetibility of phonogram
records and the various opinions as to what constitutes a perfect
record , we find that we will be obliged -in order to do business in
these articles- to make definite and positive rules in regard to
allowance for claims.
In the future and until further notice we nronose to sell
phonogram records at the following prices: ‘ ‘
FOR FIRST CLASS RECORDS.
Bands or Orchestras . nn .
Vocal Quartetts . "!.!!!!! i ” . ° ’
Instrumental Solos . ! ’75 ,
. . .
nf f?r ,rfQOrds whioh are not strictly first class on account
MflSu) S „of1fe^°Imdl!1"“’Slil!h‘ *** at<,'ith’r eml <”°t “ the
SLSSr?:::::::::::::::;;::::;::--- . V2“f*
Instrumental Solos . !.*.'! ’ . . ! * ’go a
. - . --- . X- . *...
We will from time to time send out circulars of just whet
ll -°nS W® a^e prePared t0 fin orders for, and giving notice of
-elections of which we have discontinued the manufacture. These
circulars to supersede and cancel our catalogue of records which we
;have previously issued.
co,a !Mle prices Will be charged for any particular
selection ordered, we will make a reduction of five cents on each
record ordered simply by the instrument or class, but no particular
selection being specified.
As we do not send out these records to the Phonograph Companies ■
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upon consignment ,we cannot take back or give credit for records kept
in stock by them, which prove unsalable. In filling orders for all
aelented first, class records, care will be taken to .inspect each one
beiore shipment, so as to avoid any liability of sending imperfect
records out, but that being done our responsibility ceases and no
credit or exchange will be allowed.
The records vail be carefully packed in the manner which our
experience has taught us the safest for so delicate and article, but
being delivered F.O.B.our responsibility for their safety ceases
When. delivered properly packed to such transportation company as the
consignee may direct, and we will not make allowance for breakage.
Of course we are responsible for any actual neglect in packing
or for shipping as first class records, those which are actually
defective or imperfect, bu£ we shall expect all .such claims to be made
immediately upon receipt of goods when acknowledging receipt, as-. we do
not admit, the justice of Phonograph Companies 'acknowledging -receipt
“In Good Condition" (see form 4) and afterwards making a claim for '
imperfection.
v/e desire that it be clearly understood that we can only, make
and sell musical records at the foregoing prices by adherifig strictly
to the restrictions which we have made herein, and we trust that the
Companies will appreciate the fact that the reduction in prices will
much more than compensate for an occasional loss by breakage, etc. Vie
will hereafter receive orders for records only upon these conditions.
Yours very truly,
0FFIGB 0F
^Phe ^®Pfeh PmepiGan ^©^©gpapfy (£©.,
and Jesse B. Iiippineste, §©le MeeRSee ©5 the
J3mei?i<§an Spaph©ph©^e (£©.,
TE-Z1ZIZ?U 160, 162 & 164 BROADWAY,
<P‘
^New 7Jork,_
To ,^ie J3h°n°Eraph Companies,
Gentlemen:-
V/e desire to oall your attention to the following
extract from Sec, 7th. of your Contract with this Company:
“The party of the second part shall keep all instruments leased «
“to it under this agreement in good working condition, and to that »
“end shall keep in its employ a sufficient number of persons living “
“at different points in its territory, who while acting as agents or “
“solicitors for the party of the second part, shall have sufficient »
“knowledge of the instruments to enable them to remedy any slight «
"defect in the working thereof".
It must be obvious to you that as the custodians of these
instruments which are the property of this Company, you should do all
in your power to see that they receive proper care, at the hands of
your customers, your agents and your employees.
We have been very much surprised to find that of the instruments
which have been returned to the factories by the Companies ,very few
are iii good condition, and many of them show evidences of having been
tampered with in experimental work, etc. This is in direct violation
of your agreement with us, and will not be permitted;we therefore
notify you that we shall carefully inspect all machines returned to
us, and if found to be in bad order, other than that occasioned by wear
from legitimate use, the Company from whom the machine is received
will be charged with the cost of repair of same’.
' Companies will be charged all costs for repair of wear on
instruments returned by them, the number of which does not appear on
their reports to us as a machine' rented, and on which we have not been
receiving rental.
No part of any phonograph or phonograph-graphophone should be
changed or altered in.,any_ particular, nothing should be added to or
taken from any machine, no holes shbu-l-d be. bored in any parts thereof,
and in fact they must be kept in exactly the condition -in which they
are received from us, save only the ordinary wear while under rental.
These rules are necessary and imperative and will be enforced
in every instance.
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The Companies are urgently requested to instruct their agents
and employees to give especial attention to this subject, and to
employ only competent and experienced men for the purpose.
Please acknowledge receipt of this letter.
Very
Circular Letter No. 31.
l'L.:r, ■ UflP C.
Dictated#
y June 28th, 1890,
My dear Mr. Iiippinoott :
In connection with the proceedings takefi
by the Attorney-Seneral of the State of New Jersey to collect from
The North American Phonograph Company the’ full corpora te tax upon
the ground that the Company is not employing its capital within
the State of New Jersey, it is necessary' that I should have' at
once statements from the Edison Phonograph* Works rendered 'to you '
and made up in accordance with the terms of the contract between"
that Company and The North American Phonograph Company. If these
statements run down only to May 1st. 1890, it will be siifficient
for my purposes.
It is unnecessary for me to go into details as the
agreements very fully specify what these statements of accounts
should show.
y°u kindly give the matter immediate attention, and
oblige,
EATON & LEWIS
T'
I EQUITABLE BUILOINI
' JuXy- lst, —1-890-,—
Thomas A. Edison, Esq,,
’^0
Dear sir:
Re LiPPino°tt. I send you herewith duplicate enrH.o
jr-
lh- “°1°s8i
p~r- :r “{vum st
- srair °*- ™
Very truly yours.
Dictated*
'/h^Ua-iAj July i
My dear Mr. lippinoott :
■When you see me tomorrow please do not
neglect to report how the matter of the Edison statement stands^
Our New Jersey tax proceedings are really suffering for the want
of proper action on the part of the Edison Phonograph Works, and
our New Jersey counsel is giving me a general raking over the coals
for not insisting that, we shall be furnished with statements*
Your™ truly,.
To .
JesBe H. Lippinoott, Esq.
0FFUGH 0FZ
jphe JlFFiepi©an IPhsr^gpapty G®.,
and Jes&e R Iiipp)m<s®fel3, §®Ie Licensee ®£ fehe
J3mepi©an Bpaph®ph®i^e G®.,
TE"le?°oHN.-LL' 16°> 162 & 164 BROADWAY,
INew york, _ July 3rd., 48QQ.
To The Phonograph Companies,
Gentlemen:-
. Since the Chicago Convention we have been considering
the advisability of increasing the rentals on our instruments. At
that meeting the vote was almost unanomous in favor of it, v/e
herewith submit for your consideration our general plan.
PHONOGRAPHS
Type M.with or without Table $60.00
" E» " Table & Resistance Box 65.00
“ W. # » or without 60.00
50.00
To Sub Co.
$32.' 50
32.50
32.50
25.00
PHONOGRAPH-GRAPHOPHj)NES.
Per Year To Sub Co.
$40.00 . $20.00
50.00 25.00
To N.A.P.Co,
$27.50
32.50
27.50
25.00
To N.A.P.Co.
$20.00
25.00
n _ The wf propose to furnish are the same as shown on page
0 of our Illustrated Catalogue. Under the above arrangement of
rentals it would not be necessary for lessees to purchase tables or
resistance boxes.
You will please take this matter into consideration at once, as
“t 1S important that it be arranged immediately, so that if it is to
go into effect, every detail can be settled at the earliest possible
moment ,
As soon as you have determined upon this, you will if it meets
with your approval, sign and return Blank No.l.
d0 not approve, but are willing to abide by the decision
of 3/5 of the Sub Companies, please sign and return Blank No. 2.
VMS* * not approve and are unalterably opposed to the
proposea^Bpge, please sign and return Blank No. 3.
Yourlpompt attention will greatly oblige
Yours very truly
Circular Letter No. 32.
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"1’ne lVSILTbn Jimei'iisun jl. \»w.,
and Jesse B.
TELEPHONE CALL,
"901 JOHN.”
Iiippme®fefe, §®Ie Iiieensee fefoe
JImepiean Spaphephe^e G®,,
160, 162 & 164 BROADWAY,
J^few TJork,_ . -J-UrJ-y
-3#r-
-J890.
T° Ihe Phonograph Covp antes.
Gentlemen: -
inets illustrated upVpaZV'^ T^f hcereap,fr «ab-
’w,/l bs *°M °°*
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owa
« **>»> Vo^ loTf s’Zfca™^* °f ^
. yours very truly ,
THE NORTH AM^fOAH FllO^pGRAPH CO,
Per <yM-iH0
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CIRCULAR LETTER # 54.
0BBIGB 0B
¥he ^®Pfeh Jlmepiaan ih@^@gpap^ (£©.,
and Jesse R Iiippine©fefe, §®Ie Isieensee fehe
J3mepi®an (3paph®ph®^e (2®.,
TELEPHONE CALL,
160, 162 & 164 BROADWAY,
3few TJork. July 30th.,
To The Phonograph Companies,
Gentlemen:-
> We beg leave to call your attention to a record of
a phonograph for 14 days in the offices of three concerns in this
City, who are controlled by the same head.
Letters
Lines
Words.
Cylinders
Surfaces Used.
The Works
510
3,768
39,405
83
B. & Co.
363
2,166
29,691
93
Ur. Tls Office
445
4,834
29,713
113
Note--In "Letters Record" of. Ur. T*s Office, there should be
included twb long documents.
Very truly yours,
Hie North American Phonograph Co,
pe r
Circular Letter No. 35,
Dear Sir:-
, Mr. Lippincott advises me that he has been
requested to pay into the Nicol-in-the-slot Company $7500.00, as
our half of the advance to that Company pending the selling of the
Treasury stock.
Mr. Lippincott proposes to provide $3750.00, and wants to
know if I will arrange to provide the other $3750.00,
I shall be glad if you will let me know your wishes in the
matter so that I shall be in a position to act immediately upon my
return from Chicago.
I have written Mr. Lippincott stating that I had overlooked
seeing you with reference to the matter.
Yours truly,
To The Phonograph Companies,
Gentlemen:-
We have recently had brought to our notice the fact
that some parties having obtained phonographs for exhibition or
anotherUrP°SeS fr°m ^ Company have ta.ken them into the territory of
in order that you may protect yourselves from such trespassers,
we hereby notify you that whenever you find a machine in use in your
territory not authorized by your Company, you should, upon learning its
v/hereabouts, immediately seize the machine , demand the copy of the
lease held by the party using it, and notify this Company of your
having done so, giving us the number of the machine, we will thereupon
inform you what shall be done with it.
Very truly yours,
Circular Letter No. 38.
pfy e. e IM- (AJ^ e ul_.
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CL4 C^C^JC C*-^Aa
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'■ear Mr, Edison:
Re Phonograph. Pursuant to your request, I saw .Mr.
forVrS* h8> 8f ; 8 !r< Lippincott is zoins away for three months'
T f.t0 Oalifoi’nia- He does not surrender power.
Du ng his absence his policy will be carried out by Vice-President-
irb\a" ' raSUHeriRObfSOn-a;Kl Mr* BUSh- »»*««•. plr^r
" f broken down m health and goes abroad. (I have for
gotten his name) He resigns from the Board and Spencer Th-ask
tt^r p1S Pla!f? Bush says that ^iPPincott really remains in con¬
trol of everything but for the next three months will act through
wins committee. w
i,rv ♦( Je* , 1.Bu!h wU1 help us to oomPel the local companies to
I j hS 03 cylinders & c from the M.A.Ei’Co. and the Works
G]V®.T! a cnpy of the Chicago contract today, and the
„P~ " n Vl ■* ‘ w & Kenyon Which I spoke of yesterday. Bush has
oZily. rtl"COVOrad that tMs °pi"i0“ was Given in writing and not
- s oon as 1 -et the contract with the Illinois
s*^r2*«u,s5>‘s*5r *• “•
. ^ Bush is strongly in favor of selling.phonor-ranhs
commni »sftref'l?1S lhm’ ThS Par9nt oompany «^«%S5re#rf-local
companies to do that. The net profits would be divided equally
between the parent company and the local companies. I suggest
quest ion po8iti°n you wiah t0 take °« that
wilD be * T ,me that if the ph°™Graphs are sold there
buSiiW S u maa f?r them and the Works will have more
SSTi is “ »* i *»•.
«... i ft sswswskk *""“>» to
Very truly yours ,
/ V "TliAr 4-/ff(S
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the western union telegraph company.
/Wo
Edison General Electric Co.
CONFIRMATION OF MESSAGE.
irmatlon should be checked with the original message immediately on receipt. It will
be assumed to be correct, unless advised to the contrary by telephone.
Name of Person Sending.
Name of Person Receiving.
Time.
Date.
. . . telver
. . . . Bennett
. Ilf 03 1
_11/LQ, . 90. _ iso
From whom received,
T. R. lombard Esq.,
To whom sent,
Thomas A. Edison Esq.
Upon caisulting with Mr. lippineott, he instructs mo to
revest you to make for us, six models of the new type phonograph,
as soon as you possibly can, sending the seme to thiB office. We
will then put them practically into use in such places as we deem
would be to the best advantage to develop any imprefeetions thaj;
may exist
ylcuj
b™°" ”f «>« ■’*!•« «l.h I need n« tarn;,. “ *
“»ts? «~»r«'V"»o,arSLirk“' s:sr„rv:r ^
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oblige, ' "’ «>« enclosed opinion with your reply, nat
Vej\y truly yours,
CIRCULAR LETTER,
JFhe ^©Pfeh JlFnepiesn E)h©n©gpaph (2®.,
and Jesse i. Lsippin©©fefe, S©Ie licensee ©f fel ^e
flmepiean 8p©ph©ph©ne (2©.,
p o box 2692 l60, 162 & 164 BROADWAY,
ew TJorlc, . Eec. 4th,
R READY REFERENCE.
To the Phonograph hempen i as
Cm tl man:- - ,,
r , , . }Ve are sending you a quotattojuon # 2 Edison
Lalav.de battery, the seme si so as quoted in our letter d 17-
of .tan, 18th, 181)0, hut tumorous arid radical I.'ii'Jfi0l/E',M>F8
nave been made in its construction, etc.
. lh<r ZMOS, designed to last but for ..one charae, ore
’ilut %n?d'iy^°* l^a \<W3; in., be tier mnner
. *,t ^ nZlDE PTjATKS, also dcsirjned for OPS riUAnclorhj. an
ooiyoo. into one frames instead of betna held to nilb-ar bonds
ana the frames themselves arc lima F/itfrms'mvm instead o f
/flimr/Tnw/ b°tt>m °f '1U- I;uaIl frcwi?\is Provided with
. ■ lr° CUj^j'IC If/li'AUil 8T1C. 8 are iHicliOd in cans non ,a ininn
an exact charge (:;.a ticks J'cnd arc HOF .rr up ,ed in ■■uraf-rtne
pap:. r as uejore, tans saving handling.
/nt-r ifL -,he ^xL(:“ elates necessitates of course
/. ST* *,0aa now tn uu()’ a}* sh,J ■'■^Kfaeturon
unt to futnisn unese upon orders, churn inn for >.bm list
o,/CVSjt\ ct;c(lu }n full, !,.8J FI diicilT, upon cdf
oia style frarr.es to be exchanged therefor.
0, . J2S}!T n °T K°6' ' jA “mount
oh fiatie batteries will do, yet from ACTUAL FX-
1E2KI&& °f *•« - •"* « «*«
/ iJ bnportant to obtain perfect results to follow in¬
structions sent it' it a each batten/.
. . }f cheaper than the old battery and at ate say's
time inf initely llOllfl EFFICIENT, '
i'/e therefore rccommd our customers to order new
frames for batteries which they have, and uijon receipt of
CIRCULAR LETTER # 48, —2.
same return the old style frames together with all such
used up oxides and zincs as they have on hand. The credit
allowance for these latter would probably more than cover
oldeones0rre^el 6h* nm g00ds sanb out bhe
Yours very truly,
THE NORTH AMERICAN PHONOGRAPH CO.
Per
[ENCLOSURE]
Dec.
mu.
Samuel Insull, Esq.,
# 16 d 18 Broad St., City.
Dear Sir:-
I have been looking up the matter of stock of
graphophones on hand, and beg to say that we have something
over three thousand, and I find that the sale of these ma¬
chines at $125. to the public would net us about $200,000*
I therefore suggest that you mill kindly bring this matter
before Mr. Edison and ask him to consent to our placing this
machine at that price, being $25. less than the phonograph is
sold for, as it would be impossible in my opinion for us to
sell entm, higher price. You can readily see that
this amount of stock turned into cash would be of eno-rmous
benefit to the enterprise, and I sincerely trust that Mr.
Edison will give us his consent.
Will you kindly take this matter up at once, as we
desire to send out statements to the Local Companies on
Monday afternoon at the latest, so that they may all be pre¬
pared for the placing of the machines on sale on the 15th
of this month, as per Resolutions of the Executive Committee ,
passed Dec. 3rd, 1890.
Your early attention will oblige.
Yours very truly.
V.P.
fj
New York Oity, December 13, 1890.
ar Mr. Bdisoi
f,nln 9 Re Phonograph Matters. Mr. Bush and I waited for you
{srfrrS trsrs -
t.,; e™phowonr“ 'J590'000- 5"»h *»« 1. p.li $200,000 TOP
(2) The income of the N.A.P.Co. does not now nav oft* to
I3f ™h*B nn trz-.
will fo to r)ieces°b°dR Wvm PUt Up any more morieY» andthe Comnany
go to pieces# Bush savs +im+ t. a » ~ J
$600,000 m hard cash. 1 *0W °Ut of pocket over
if l ‘S) B^Sh SayS that your Note due next month will be peia
L- J“' ia * »*«• »«■>«-
out to tvJf} 13VSh “naz?d me by sayinfi that notices had been sent
next MonSa, J companies for them to begin to sell phonographs
the nickel ^lot R \ °f th9 amount of work 1 have done to put
not let me Sow J^"88? °n a fi™ baSiS 1 re^et that you did
not let me know that sales were to be made. When a man 4 _ j, . „
mvllxha aPartiCUlar SUbjSCt* and Bivins thoughf\o it as shown bv^
himSSaS T 1'eP01't t0 y°U °f November I2> ^ it not well to keep
control Uni5 } Pat??ts of leaver's nickel slot Company are not
If ma°hines are sold on Monday, they can be used
for nickel slot purposes by the public. But S J £S only known
Si.:;.r£?soiti!;!hth?t machines to be
? “mo.fSt*; ‘T “ ray f°- d°inB «■« m si; »oSv'“ '
r; H — -h » ~ »f
too SS ySt “ 1 ™ *“” 11 Mi l»vo teen ,av„l. j. a
Very truly yours,
EATON & LEWIS
S.B. EATON
U
Dear Mr'. Edison:
,oh:
{ EQUITABLE BU
^ Re Ph°nosraph Matters . I beg to sav that late
afternoon Mr. Bush called on me and stated that the A.P.E.Ex. Co.
had commenced a suit here in the B.S. Circuit Court to resign the
N.A.P.Co. from authorizing phonographs to be sold, and had obtained
a temporary injunction from Judge Wallace. The hearing will
LreV nC?o^the ?9th.ienSt‘ BUSh sa*s «»* *he tapers l lie pre-
Tn ll VCltTn a The A-P*Ex- c°- save a bond of §5000
inJronct ion. The bondsmen were Charles A. Cheever and?
sujtS Evans* Mr« Kitchen is the attorney of record in the
, . , , . The wh°le fieht relates to the use of phonograps for
nickel slot purposes. That question could easily have been arranged
last week to everybody's satisfaction. I have speubtime and
gSf and y°U had infomed me of what was
+ Iff* that Phonographs were to be sold, I could have fixed
the whole thing up, if you wished it fixed. it is possible to
terri°oriaiiv ph<jn"eraphs in su°h a way as to restrict their u.e
poses! restrict their use as regards nickel slot pur-
this S1,1+ ?U!h a!^S m® t0 advise with him in connection with
this suit for an injunction. I declined to do so until I could
the a p v h0lP lamentinS that the bright projects of
the A, P.E. Co . have been emperilled needlessly, as it seems to me.
J sl?a11 send a copy of this letter to Mr. Insull anri
waiting your further instructions, 1 remain, insull, and
Very truly yours,
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.
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CIRCULAR LETTER.
,Yo SI
OBFirGH 0B
^Phe I|©pfefo flFFiepi©an E)h@n©§paph G©.,
and Jesse & Liippin©©fefe, §©Ie licensee ©f fefya
JlFnepiaan (ap©ph@ph©ne G©.,
p o. BOX 2592 l60’ 162 & 164 BROADWAY,
IKew TJork, . Dec. . 1.6th, . 'ISQO.
To the Phonograph Companies,
Gentl men:-
We have this day fo rwarded to you tel¬
egram as follows:*.
' * Outing to 1 ijtigatiqniinstttuted by. Automatic
Phonograph Company and injimctionyserved upon us, we request
you to refrain from any a at i on zmder^bvntci rcular # 49 re¬
lating. to sale of machines until further: advised by us,”-
We hereby beg to confirm said ^telegram.
Yours very truly,
TVEJjQRgp AMERICAN PHONOGRAIH CO,
Mr. Tate,- December 18, 1890.
Do you desire me to repiy to the attached letter
m accordance with Mr. Edison's notes in addition to writing to
Mr. Instill what you dictated this morning?
[ENCLOSURE]
EATON & LEWIS
•yjlcw Dan.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Bear Sir:
Re Phonograph Matters. I beg to acknowledge the
receipt of your telephone message in reply to my second letter of
srr; JSJK JS - s S.SS rrdu \ ^
r^r,r -ir
„?r £L*’££s£jLe^; “ss
matter ha. taker, all of .hloh mJefS hay. t™”» 1, " '
t°T, *° d? »w “™ •'■■•yrf: it, anless ,o,” pe^oAaf to.
terests require it, and you direct me to.
With best jjfi'shes, I remain.
Very truly yours.
Srnu. £•? *•
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MEMORANDUM.
CYLINDERS.
A single record cylinder capable of receiving and reproducing
vocal sounds as v/ell as the present one, and to which a dictation
covering a period of at least ten minutes could be made. Non-
breakable i.e, sufficiently tough or elastic to stand ordinary usage,
such as falling over on its side or dropping a short distance on to
a carpeted floor without breaking. They should also be uniform in
their character, both as to length and kind of reproducing surface and
not liable to give scratchy records. Another point in connection
with the cylinders, which is as important as any, is, that the price to
the public should be made as cheap as possible.
1890. Phonograph - North American Phonograph Company -
Subsidiary Sales Companies (D-90-59)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
business affairs of various regional sales companies under contract with the
North American Phonograph Co. Included are an annual report of the
Metropolitan Phonograph Co. and correspondence about the use of the
phonograph in the printing industry and about the development of a nickel-in-
the-slot device by the Colorado and Utah Phonograph Co. There are also
many letters by Edward D. Easton, president of the Columbia Phonograph Co.,
concerning technical problems and improvements in the phonograph.
Approximately 70 percent of the documents have been filmed. The
following categories of documents have not been filmed: routine
correspondence regarding financial transactions, requests for employment
advertising, and other promotions of the phonograph; letters of transmittal. ’
annual report op the metropolitan phonograph company,
for the year ending January 1st, 1890.
The amount of Capital Stock of the Metropolitan
| Phonograph Company is one million dollars, of which
$998000. has been issued in payment for franchise of Patent
: Rights, and other property necessary for its business.
The amount of the existing debt of the Company does
not exceed Two thousand five hundred dollars, as far as can
' be asce rtained.
I Dated January 11th, 1890.
Chas. A. Cheever,
President.
Chas. A. Cheever
John L. Martin
James B. Metcalf
Joseph S. Auerbach
J. J. Gunther
Felix Gottschalk
Maj ority
of the
Trustees.
City and County of New YoWc: ss.
j Charles A. Cheever being duly sworn, says that he
1 is the President of the Metropolitan Phonograph Company,
J and that the foregoing report is true to the best of his
i'| knowledge, information and belief.
Chas. A. Cheever.
Sworn before me this
13th day of January, 1890.
tcs*
Willard L, Candee.
Notary Public,
Kings Co.
Cert. filed in N. Y. Co.
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PACIFIC PHONOGRAPH CO.
San Francisco, Cal. Apl*18,1890.
A. 0. late. Esq. ,
Orange, N.J.
My dear Tate:
There is an old saying that it is exceedingly bad
taste to look a gift horse in the mouth; but thaoc Major McLaughlin
brought back two or three phonograph dolls--one of whieh he gave
to Jack Wright of Sacramento, and this has stirred me up to remind
eieu of your promise to me, which I suppose — in the mnltiplieity of
your duties— you have’ forgotten.
What a lot of tahgled conferences you mast have had over the
nickel phonograph business, and wouldn't I have had a long holiday
if I had waited for the termination of the business as they sug»
gested when I was there? From What Cheever now writes me, I
Judge that the thing will be amicably arranged very soon, and X
trust it may be so, for there is certainly money in the business.
G>..Cer<./y. ^ Cq
I enclose you herewith linotype letter
which I have received from Cl ephane .together with a letter received
by him from the Baltimore Agency of the Clolumbia Phonograph Co.
I send these to you for your information When do you think you
can look at the linotype machine?
Yours very truly,
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, NewJerseyi
Encs .1.2.
PHONOGRAPHIC DICTATION.
[ENCLOSURE]
THE MEBGENTHALER PRINTING COMPANY.
Judge Euilding, 110 Fifth Avenue.
Your kind favor of 30th inst. received. In view i
fact of Mr. Edison’s absence 1 suppose we will have to determine upci
e day next week ns the time for his visit.
sverul newspaper men to whom I have shown the Phonograph working i
lection with the Linotype, have become very enthusiastic over it; they st
i they now see a way of relieving themselves from the grasp of the Unioi
i “reader” can give all directions on the Phonograph as
mgement, spelling of proper names, etc., 'and thus they be enabled to m
3, or other unskilled labor.
enclose yon letter of Mr. Cromlein. The circulur letter to which lie refe:
letter I addressed to Mr. Devine, printed on the linotype. I sent a cop
Ir. Easton, and a few others.
lease let me know a day in advance if possible the time of Mr. Edison
(Dictated to Phonograph and Transcribed on Linotype Machine.)
[ENCLOSURE]
THE COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY,
THE NORTH AMERICAN PHONOGRAPH CO.
THE AMERICAN GRAPHOPHONE CO.
Baltimor^-^d^-gun^r^jbh^ ’ 90 .
JUL 2 1890
Ar.s’d . is
I have just seen your circular-letter in relation to
the contemplated new type of Phonograph, which was handed me temporari-
ily for suggestions etc. Won’t you do me the kindness to let me
have a copy?
This is the best talking machine news I’ve heard for months,
and if you’re not "drawing the long bow" would seem to leave nothing
undone. I congratulate you.
Please send me a copy or two as soon as possible, as there
are several things simmering in my mind in the way of phonographic
necessities, and I should like to make it a study for the next few
weeks. With kind personal^ regards, believe me
Yours very truly,
Mr. James 0. Clephane,
Judge Building, N. Y
My dear sir:
OTT & TEWKSBURY,
LAND AND IMMIGRATION AGENTS
Atchison, Topkka & Santa Fk Railroad Co. Dictated.
Topeka, Kansas, July 3, 189 0.
Messrs. Barber & Cantrell,
Colorado Phonograph Co., Denver, Colo.
Gentlemen:
Will you please inform us what progress you are malting
with the slot machine appliance. Are your plans formulated and
can you tell us what you want to do? Also give us what advise you
can as to the opinion of your attorney with regard to the status
of the. patents in connection with a possible conflict between
yourselves and the Automatic Slot Machine Company of New York.
Kindly address your letter on this sub.iect to Mr. S. a. Ott, as the
writer of "this note who had the pleasure of meeting you in Chicago
will bo absent from the City for some little time. It may be of
mutual interest that you give us as full information as possible.
We particularly desire to know how you propose to work this deal.
Yours faithfully,
Ph*.0 Ct>,
- THE EDISON MACHINE WORK.S.
PRIVATE TELEPHONE I
CONFIRMATION OF MESSAGE.
NOTH— This confirm
of Person Sending.
me of Person Receiving.
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From whom received:
To whom sent: '* 3-JZL^CC;
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16 Broad St • , New Yorl
I -l-ASl address REPLY 10
10 & IS BROAD STREET.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
L
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1 enclose you herewith the priginal\ofa letter
I have1 received from J.O.Clephane, toget^r^wi^h skhle
by him from Mr.Eastman of . the Columbia Ponograph Co.,
Yours tral v. v
v letter received
. > i p • n$- ..'i-T;, ( Cu-
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PHONOGRAPHIC DICTATION.
[ENCLOSURE]
t;he mergenthaler printing company
[ENCLOSURE]
Baltimore Office; 12
rn Charles Street.
Wilmington, 'Del.. Office, 820 Market St
THE COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY,
THE NORTH AMERICAN PHONOGRAPH C(
THE AMERICAN GRAPHOPHONE CO.
'fj__
/if-? free
»l Office, 627 E Street, N.
July 8th, 1890.
Mr* James 0. Clephane,
Care of Mergenthaler Printing Company,
The Judge Building,
New York City.
My Dear Mr. Clephane.*-
• As we have no intimation, other than
from yourself, of an improved phonograph, I send you herewith a few
rough notes of objections to the present machine, which in our
opinion should be overcane. Will you kindly forward them to Mr.
iiaison or vrherever else you please*
STOP AND START*
It is of the utmost importance that a convenient stop aid
start, the same to be used both by dictator and transcriber A1
v 4sh0^d be Wished at once. This is the most serious drawback 6
in the commercial use of the present machine. We think the ideal
f“?p fl"? “^St b® throueh st°PPing and starting the cylinder;
and that if dependence is placed upon raising and lowering the
da iphragm the result will never be as satisfactory. Too much
emphasis cannot be laid upon the necessity for immediate atten¬
tion to this point. •
GOVERNOR AND MOTOR BROSHES.
Thf governor and motor brushes require considerable attention
atoirSv80 p0nS^nS \h!Vr9 in perf6Ct oondition the motor works
admirably. Possibly their operation can be simplified. A stdp-
bSLST ?laG!d “ the motor> t0 Prevent it being turned .
backward. The turning backward of the motor by careless subscrib¬
ers injures the brushes.
CYLINDER GATE.
Sdns*e moven8nt should be provided to close and look the gate
inst ead of two, as at present s
y
th® be®innine. practical users of both phonograph and
. graphophone have earnestly called for a little. bell£to bes so
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Baltimore Office: 12 North Charles Street.
wnqton, Del., Office, 826 Market St
THE COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY,
THE NORTH AMERICAN PHONOGRAPH CO.
IE AMERICAN GRAPHOPHONE Cl
Principal Office, 627 E Street, n. W., Washington, D. c.,
placed on the machine as to warn the dictator when he is nearing
the end of the cylinder. Every practical user will appreciate
this point, which can be readilfr met at slight expense..
REPRODUCER ADJUSTMENT.
It would be a great advantage if the side adjustment of the
reproducer were done away with and the action of that mechanism
were automatic. A very annoying feature of the present machine
is the constant tinkering of the adjusting screw .
CORRESPONDENCE MONOGRAPHS.
It is suggested that if a phonograph could be made which was
cheap portable, simple and only adapted to correspondence by
mail, and this machine were sold, it would have an immense use.
Such provision would have to be made, however, as would prevent
its use for purposes other than correspondence.
HUNDRED THREAD SCREW.
The hundred thread screw should be protected. It is now
exceeding liable to injury because of its exposed situation.
Other suggestions will be made and forwarded as they occur.
Our first nickle in the slot phonograph is averaging°little
over three dollars per day, in the Ebbitt house drug store'.We
are very enthusiastic over this branch of the business.
Sincerely yours,
.Si < 1
South Dakota Phonograph Company,
GENERAL OFFICE, METROPOLITAN BLOCK.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
July 15th, 1890.
Denver Phonograph Company,
Denver, Colorado.
Gentlemen: — We are in receipt of a communication from Mr.
M. S. Linsley of Omaha, stating that you have perfected a nickle-in-
the-slot machine to he attached in some manner to the Phonograph and
which is so made and so connected that it does not violate af any of
the provisions of the contract with the North American Company.
Now, if you have such a machine we should lie very glad , as Mr.
Linsley suggests, to have your agent call upon us and ascertain all
we can regarding the same, regarding your patents , and etc. We
wish to ask whether these machines are ready for the market, whether
patents have been secured upon same, or simply applications for patents
Also what provision you have made to protect parties, who purchase
from you or lease from you, in the manner of infringement, what guar¬
antee €o you give to protect those who use your instruments against
conflicts in the patent office, etc.? When will you be ready to re¬
ceive orders, and how soon can you supply orders given and in what
quantites? How large a number of machines could you furnish? We
should like to see one <StjL the machines and see it operate before we
lookinS to a consignation of a contract.
Iphonogr.'F:;1-' Yours very truly,
E PMONOGRAPH-GRAPHOPHONE.
THE MISSOURI PHONOGRAPH COMPANY,
THE N0RTHa PHONOGRAPH CO.
THE AMERICAN GRAPHOPHONE CO.
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have received from E.D.Easton.of thetfolumbia Phonograph Company.
I have written this gentleman today stating, that if he is lia-
tie to be in New York within the next week or so, I would arrange
for him to see you at your laboratory.
'J* my mind, he is the most intelligent nan in the Phonograph
business, and I am sure you would be very glad to meet him, and the
Interview would certainly be profitable , as he is sure to harlots
of suggestions to make.
I will write you again as soon as 1 hear from him again.
Yours very truly,
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Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange ,New Jersey .
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Mr. Samuel Insull,
16 & 18 Broad St.,
New York City.
Dear Sir;-
July 26Jhh, 1890o
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±S> P9rhaPS °Ueht t0 *• Protected by a o^er. On thelPre3ent
phonograph it is exposed to all sorts rf accidents.
On the present phonograph, Jhe motor and governor
mechanism are in sight and give an appearance of complication to
the machine which it does not desarve. it might be well to con¬
ceal this mechanian, and yet have the arrangement ,at,^that &,£g»'-.
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pairer could readily get at the parts.
The most serious obj action to the present phonograph,
for ooiJDiereial purposes, ia its stop and start mechanism. That I
have already referred to. I should place it at the }*ad of the
list, '
The basinet-:, ase of th» -Wv-xuri,
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is constantly extending and ?re fin:;. „,u,.h «^nr. - — -
aibsoribers,
YOUrs Snay,
President.
ident of the Columbia Phonograph Company.
This man was the strongest opponent of the Phonograph, prior
to the Chicago Convention. ! would remind you of w tell-
iag you that he was the man that we wanted to catch, and I thought
what he would see in Chicago, would of itself catch him.
You will see from this letter, that the Devil is not quite as
black as he is painted. I think that we can nuke an awfully
good fViend of East on, and that is one reason why I wanted you to,
see him on Friday or Saturday. I think that if we establish
Proper relations with Easton.it will mean the more rapid suppress¬
ion of the Graphophone Factory. This of itself, is of very great
importance to us. as manufacturers of talking machines.
Yours very truly,
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, N.J.
Eno .3.
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Baltimore Office: 12 North Charles Street.
THE COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH -COMPANY,
THE NORTH AMERICAN PHONOGRAPH CO.
THE AMERICAN GRAPHOPHONE C(
August 1, 1890.
Mr. Samuel Insull,
No. 16 Broad. Street.
New York City.
My dear Sir:
, Office, 826 Market Street.
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Your esteemed favor of July 29th reached this office during my
absence. I am spending part of each week with my family in Bergen
County, New Jersey.
If you will name a day in the latter part of next week when
you and Mr. Edison are likely to be at liberty for the conference &
which you refer, I shall be happy to come on and talk with you. I
am anxious to do everything possible for the comnerclal success of
the Phonograph, and sincerely trust, after the now machine is out
it will be able to stand for years without material alteration. 1
The present instrument, plus a better stop and start, would live
forever in the business world; nevertheless, a much larger field
can be taken, and with much less intelligent effort on the part of
the Phonograph Companies, if the mechanism is simplified anfl im¬
proved.
I thank you for your kind invitation to talk with Mr. Edison
and I shall esteem it a privilege to do so.
Tours truly
Ebis9n Laboratory.
WJLIffilAl.
Ebison Laboratory.
EBIS0N LAB0RAT0RY.
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#2 Wall Street. He promised to pay it last Monday. Is there any
way by which I can be paid tomorrow morning."
Has Mr. Insull ahy.thing to say before I show this message to Mr.
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Gen’l Manager.
3altimore Office: 12 North Charles Street*
h, Del*, Office: 826 Market Street.
THE COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY,
THE NORTH AMERICAN PHONOGRAPH CO.
THE AMERICAN GRAPHOPHONE CO.
August 20, 1890,
Mr. Thomas A. Edison.
Orange, New Jersey.
Dear Sir:
Will you kindly add to the memorandum I gave you when we last
talked about the Phonograph', the following additional points:
SINGLE RECORD BLANKS.
There should be a single record bleak, to contain two thousand
or more words.
READY IDENTIFICATION.
One of the leading objections to the use of the Phonograph is
that it is difficult to identify records. All look alike. If
there was alplace in or on the cylinder where numbers could be writ¬
ten and subsequently rubbed off; or, better still if there was pro¬
vision for making, conveniently, an abstract of contents it would
be a great help, A strong pcint with the Graphophone cylinder is
that one can write on the inside enough to identify it. It will
not do to have the identifioatibn apart from the cylinder. It
should be upon the cylinder. For this reason the numbering of
posjis upon which cylinders are to stand does not completely fill
the bill.
BETTER METHOD OF CLEANING CYLINDERS.
There is evident need of a better method of cleaning cylinders
than the present brush in the hands of the average user. If it is
possible to have the cleaning done automatically it would be a de¬
cided gain.
We have very pleasant recollections of our recent visit; and
shall be glad to come again at any time if we can be of the slight¬
est service in helping to forward the wotk so closely at heart;.
Yours trjtly
PbfKb - Caa -
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Mr. Thomas Edison,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
L,
Wilmington, N,
August 30th, 1890.
I hope you will pardon my boldness in addressing you,
but my great interest in the Phonograph and its future success is
my apology.
Some time ago X was appointed by the Old Domini on-'Phori-
ograph Co. of Roanoke, Va. their Resident Manager for this section
of the country , and have quite recently returned from -a trip to
the principal Eastern Phonograph Companies where I went to become -
posted as to the Phonograph.
I find the introduction of the machine for practical and com¬
mercial purposes in this locality uphill work, and ildesire to
boom them by reporting - if possible - the sermons of the Rev.
Sam Jones who will hold a great religious meeting hero- during the ..
latter part of next month (September 25th ), and my object in
writing you is to ascertain if I cannot obtain from you [a pair ••
of sensitive diaphrams for the purpose just referred to.' j ain
willing to pay a reasonable price for them. X have been exper¬
imenting with the ordinary diaphram, but find I must speak a little
too loud for meeting work. "> .. •
I have the Treadle, Water-Motor, and Electric Motor patterns'
of machines, and any suggestions that would be useful^ in ’obtaining
good results from a sensitive or ordinary diaphram would.be highly-' r
appreciated. ... £ • • £ £
Awaiting your will and pleasure as to the above request. X- % ?-
remain . .; v -
Very truly yours,
A. W. OLANOY, PneoT,
317 K- FOURTEENTH STREET.
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Sep. 10th{ 1800.
Colorado Phonograph Co. ,
Denver, Colo.
-Gentlemen: —
Have you ^oti^’ your automatic Niciae-in-the-slot, in connection
171 til the Phonograph, v/orking in first-class order. We should be pl'da'ofe
ed to have your agent call and see uc; if you arqjc^oming this way with a
sample of your machines. As yet we hayo not contracted with any Co-'
and are anxious to get the best machine ppssiblo. lye wish to thorough¬
ly tost t3liB device before buying or contracting; 1/e desire to buy--
the machines directly from the Companies. V/ill not sign any contract*
for 5 years, nor pay any percentage.
Yours truly.
MISSOUR^^^RAPHCC
THE PHONOGRRPH HND f HONSGHHPH-CRHPHOPHONE,
A* 0. Tate, Esq.,
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Sep tember. 15t hr 189Q* . ■/<?$
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Orange, N. j.
Your favor of Septonber 12th received. I return the two '
diaphragms, as requested, with an apology to Mr. Edison for n>t
having reported dpon their- merits before this- The failure to do so
was owing to my desire to give them a most thorough test, and which
I have been prevented from do ing by’cont inuous absence in New York
in connection with the linotype and Phonograph. 'The teste that 1
made did not show than to be superior to the new link diaphragm
in point of sensitiveness, but, as I say, I was desirous of giving
further trials in order to be sure about this. They certainly gave
as good results as the new link diaphragn, but a mumuring sound,
acconpanyift/the reproduction, which cbubtlesswas due to the fact
of the spring resting to a «a ight extent ’upim W wiinderw ■
Eran the enclosed proof, the nkrked portion of whioh I would
bo pleased if jou would show to Mr. Edison, you will see I have
not been idle in pushing forward the merits of the Phonogr^h. Two
or three leading newspapers have already indicated an intention to
PHONOGRAPH AND PtfONOGRAPH-CRAPHOPHONB.
hem instead of copy.
Trusting Mr. Edison will excuse me for my tardiness in this
matter, and wl th thanks to him for his kindness in giving as an
opportunity to test them, I remain.
Very respectfully,
P.s. There is no doubt that with sensitive disphragns-oven
the present ones, if no better can be had— an arrangement made by
which two ma* ines i3*Xb >s placed by the sane table and run by the
same motor, all the reporting now done by ehorthind, will b» done
by the Phonograjih. .
THE KANSAS PHONOGRAPH COMPANY,
Topeka, Kans. Sept. IS, ldyo.
Tho Coin Control ed Mechanism Company,
Denver, Colo.
Gentlemen:
Your several letters of the 13th inst. , also the shipment
of your three machines by express have all been received. As you
surmise we had a special object in having these machines here
to-day because of the State Pair which continues for four days.
We had expected tho machines in tho cases ready for use, such a3
Mr. Ott saw when in Denver on the 10th in3t. This not being the
case it will be difficult for us to have cases made in time to be
of much service to us during the Pair. Mr. Lindsay, whose rela¬
tions with your Company were confidentially related to the writer
last Wednesday, named $10.00 as the price of the machine together
with a royalty of 15 per cent, of the net: receipts, and the title
t.o remain in your Company; or $35.00 apiece if they were purchased
outright and your Company retained no interest in the not receipts.
We think that we can-make use of quite a number of your machines in
our territory, but prefer to make the commission arrangement with
you at. the beginning until such a time at loast as we can satisfy
ourselves as to its thorough reliability, and also consult The
North American Phonograph Company as to the permission of tho use
of this machine in connection with the phonograph, which you are
undoubtedly aware i3 prohibited in the franchise. We believe,
however, that this is a mere matter of form in order to obtain said
consent, and when once the way is clear we desire a greater number
of the machinos. We wired you this morning to withhold the ship¬
ment of the other two machines ordered a3 it would be impossible
for us to malt o use of them for this special occasion referred to in
the first part of this letter. Please advise us by return mail
as to the terms above referred to. If you cannot consent to the
percentage arrangement, as per conversation between the writer and
Mr. Lindsay, we should prefer to return two of the machines at
least and possibly all of them, as we would hesitate in making the
purchase without having had any writing from The North American
Company that they would permit us to use them.
There is one point in the mechanism that we are not
entirely in the clear about, and that is the connection to be made
by the wires to the phonograph, as the phonograph that we have does
not seem to have a place provided for the attachment of these wires
One of them appears to be intended to slip over the 3crew which
forms one of the contacts with the battery. The other end is
provided with a small brass washer into which a 3crew ha3 been
placed by your Company, but no corresponding place remains on the
phonograph wherein this screw can be fastened. An early reply to
all tho foregoing will greatly oblige. Yours truly,
THE KANSAS PHONOGRAPH COMPAI
Omaha, Neb. Oct. 13, 1890.
Mr. Sim W. Cantrill,
Denver, Colo.
Dear Sir: --
1 herewith enclose you photographs of a
multiple- tube arrangement for the nickel-in-the-slot. The photographs
show two tubes. Three, four or more can be used, but probably two
tubes in addition to the one already used, would be ample. Photograph
No. 1 shows the air-tight valves closed, so no sound at all is convey¬
ed through the tubes. No. 2 shows the valves open ready for two per¬
sons to hear. A nickel passing through the slot^opens the valve. It
requires one nickel to open each valve. The valves are closed by the
carriage as it returns. It is exceedingly simple and a sure worker,
and it can be placed on any nickel-in-the-slot machine. It is held in
place by body screw of phonograph. It is thought that this device
will double the earnings of the nickel-in-the-slot phonograph. It is
proposed to furnish this device complete (two tubes) for five cents
per day, or SI. 50 per month, payable monthly; contract to continue for
one year. Orders can be filled in about twenty to thirty days.
Yours
very truly,
New York City, No v. 3rd, 1890.
Dear Mr, Gottschalk:
Siftoe I saw you I have had a talk with Mr. Edison ,
also with Mr, Btishf Mr. Dippincott' s lawyer) and have received
copies o the contracts between the N.A.P.Co. and the Illinois
licensees, together with a copy of the opinion of Witter & Kenyon.
It turns out thstt after all to have been a long and carefully pre¬
pared document in writing.
Between now and Wednesday I hope to make up my mind
touching our rights, and if I do, I shall take the liberty” of
calling you up on Wednesday or Thursday.
Please excuse printed signature.
Ve ry truly yours ,
S.B. .Eaton,
THE KANSAS PHONOGRAPH COMPANY,
THE NORTH AMERICAN PHONOGRAPH COMPANY
AND JESSE H. LIPPINCOTT, SOLE LICENSEE
of the American graphophone co.
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The Coin Controlled Mechanism Company,
Denver, Colo.
Gentlemen:
B+ , 01 tJ1G ult* is before us. V/«
^ fi* 11 , “8S be9n V0ry desirous to obtain satisfactory results
up our10id«a bn“S \iCh V0U SSn+' Ua* °nly °ne of whicl1 WG had sot
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THE COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY,
n, Del., Office: 826 Market Street.
THE NORTH AMERICAN PHONOGRAPH CO.
THE AMERICAN GRAPHOPHONE CO.
Suggestions Submitted by E. D. Easton, of Washington, D. C,
for Improvements in Phonograph.
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STOP AND START.
It is of th^dtmost importance that a convenient stop and
start, the same to be used both by dictator and tramscriber, should
be furnished at once. This is the most serious drawback in the
commercial use of the present machine. We think the ideal stop,
and start must be through stopping and starting the cylinder; and
that if dependence is jkced on raising and lowering the diaphragm
the result will never be as satisfactory. Too tfuch emphasis can
not be laid upon the necessity for immediate attention to this poin^-.
v-Jv [' ^ THREE hands REQUIRED.
■ 1 *rrangement, the dictator is given too much
work. One,\|ha»d'\holds the mouth-piece, the other hand manipulates
the stop and- start; while a third hand would be dSSgb-le to handle
papers, &c. It would be desirable to relieve users on this point
if possible.
ltimohe Office: 12 North Charles Stre
THE COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY,
THE NORTH AMERICAN PHONOGRAPH CO.
THE AMERICAN GRAPHOPHONE CO.
LONGER SPEAKING-TUBE.
The present speaking tube is at least eight inches too short
when used on one of the new typewriter tables.
GOVERNOR AND MOTOR BRUSHES.
The governor and motor brushes require considerable attention,
although so long as they are in perfect condition the motor works
admirably. Possibly their operation can be simplified. A stop-
ball should be placed on the motor, to prevent it being turned
backward. The turning backward of the motor byfc careless subscrb-
ers injures the brushes.
It is doubtful whether a man, without technical experience,
can take a motor Phonograph to a point where he cannot be reached
by an expert, and run it for a montli without irregularity of the
governor brushes, motor, &c.
CYLINDER GATE.
A single movement should be provided to close and lock the
gate, instead of two as at present.
BELL.
Erom the beginning, practical users of both Phonogrjih and Gra-
phophone have constantly called for a little bell so placed on The
machine^, like the typewriter, to warn the dictator when he is
nearing the end of the cylinder. Every practical user will appre¬
ciate this point, which can be readily met at slight expense.
REPRODUCER ADJUSTMENT.
It would be of great advantage if the side' adjustment of the
BALTJMOnE OFFICE:
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Wilmington, .Del., Office: 826 M
THE COLUMBIA PHONOGRAPH COMPANY,
THE NORTH AMERICAN PHONOGRAPH CO.
reproducer were done away with and the action of that mechanism
were automatic. ' A verp annoying feature of the present machine is
the constant tinicering with the adjusting screw.
PROTECTION OE HUNDRED THREAD SCREW
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The hundred thread screw should be protected. It is no w
ceedingly liable to injury, because of its exposed situation.
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CORRESPONDENCE PHONOGRAPHS.
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It is suggested that if a Phonograph could be made which was
cheap, portable, simple and only, adapted to correspondence by mail,
and this machine were sold, it would have an immense use. Pro¬
vision would however have to be made to prevent its use kjc for
purposes other than corr espondence.
Theopinion is genral here that if the entire mechanism could
be rearranged, made much lighter and more compact it would be de¬
sirable. The present Phonograph occupies altogether too much
space, is much too heavy and is liable to create an impression that
it is exceedingly complicated. It might be thought best in the
rearrangement, to conceal the motbr and governor mechanism, which
are now in sight, and yet have the arrangement such that an inspec¬
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1890. Phonograph - Talking Doll (D-90-60)
This folder contains correspondence, accounts, and other documents
concerning the manufacture and promotion of Edison’s talking doll. Many of
the documents pertain to the business of the Edison Phonograph Toy
Manufacturing Co. There are also letters about Edison’s efforts to reorganize
the company’s board of directors and about the sale of Edison’s foreign patent
rights to the talking doll. Included also are letters requesting dolls or asking
for information about them. Among the correspondents are Daniel Weld,
secretary of the Toy Manufacturing Co.; J. T. Spalding, a company
stockholder; and Sherburne B. Eaton, Edison’s attorney. Some of the
documents may be partially illegible due to water damage.
Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been filmed. The
following categories of documents have not been filmed: an undated 69-page
booklet containing detailed cost estimates for the manufacture of the dolls;
letters of transmittal and acknowledgement; meeting announcements and
other routine business correspondence relating to the Toy Manufacturing Co.;
stock certificates; duplicate copies of selected documents.
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W. H. DEAN,
STAR LIFE AS8URANOE SOCIETY'S BUILDINGS,
W. H. Dean Esq.,
TORONTO.
Dear Sir/-
We have your favour «t & bdg to 3$
to the continued delay of tte&mm- 0# dolls' Trpri uMtatffr I
Factory, that we are unable «M-ch we 5^
this article. The probable prog* ** the ^te-fl^ateV mil *$ % a pi eel
and as the demand for the doll* ».»tf^ ^tfise> t0 be ,4a^
it will be some time before mm&a ro !
The doll now being ****
Plated at the time of making *
to make a cheaper article to meet, ffmafc
Onder thee. circunsfnM. «■«*•«» Magfeggi. «$gte j
your .contract, thus fra.*® mBWM «M>«. tal^fe 1
10,000 della a year, and a*,l» to *»»**»# fe^gRjfeSStfln^ik t«el ’
aecnt tor Cana* and son tietr @Sul® «n * lor I
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<SUW ^y/TMarch 28, 1890.
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Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Dear Sir:
. TO Knn , Re Batchelor and msull Interest’, . respectively,
in 12,500 shares of stock in E.P.T.Mlf 'g. Co. I beg to say that Mr
Tate wrote me on the 5th inst., asking me to draw agreements in the
above matter. I did so, and wrote you on the I8th inst’., asking
for further informaion about details. You referred my said letter
to Mr. Insull, and I have received his reply, dated 24th inst.
giving me the information desired. But still another point has
arisen today, and I have been o bliged to write Mr. Insull for a
solution thereof. On receiving his re ply, I shall proceed at
once i.o perfect the said agreement* and when it was made satisfac¬
tory, I can duplicate it for Mr. Batchelor.
Hoping the same will, .be satisfactory, I remain,
Very truly yours,’ .
S'. B. Eaton,
Please excuse printed signature.*
T°''{
EATON 8, LEWIS
S.B. EATON
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Dear Sir:
Replying to your valued favor of yesterday, request¬
ing that in addition to the agreements relating to the Batchelor -
Insull interest in 12,500 shares of stock in the Edison Phonograph
Toy Manufacturing Company, you wish a third agreement drawn giving
Mr. A'.O.Tate an interest of five per centum therein, I beg to say
that it shall have my early attention'.
The agreement of Mr. Insull was still further re¬
vised at' an interview between him and me on Sunday and was final¬
ly given to the typewriter yesterday. Probably I shall be able
to send you a completed draft this evening. if you approve, I
can immediately go on and make contracts on the same lines for Mr.
Batchelor and Mr. Tate'.
Hoping the above will be satisfactory, I remain,
/'dfl < EQUITABLE BUILDING)
rro
Very truly yours,
]^Hs°if''p1ioi}ograpIi Toy gonjpapy.
■ • OFFICE OF 1
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2 TREASURER
Room 73.
Boston,
Dear Sir: -
Your favor of March 29th., with enclosure was duly' re¬
ceived and we send you herewith the following Certificates of
Stock of this Company.
No. A. 1820 - - - - A. B. Dick - - - - 200 Shares', yt^if
" * 1821 - - - - Charles Batchelor -130 “ “
“ “ 1822 - - - Samuel Insull - - 130 *
“ " 1823 *- - -A. 0. Tate - - 1 - - 65 »
“ 11 1824 - - - - Thomas A. Edison - -13,475 »
14,000 “
and remain
Yours very truly,
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EQUITABLE BUILDING)
Dear Sir:-
I send you herewith duplicate copies of the
agreement between yourself and Mr. Batchelor, relating to Mr.
Batchelor’ s percentage interest in the stock of the Edison Phono¬
graph Toy Manufacturing Company, both of which have been duly ex¬
ecuted by yourself and Mr. Batchelor, and are now in proper
condition for final delivery. will you kindly deliver one to Mr
Batchelor, and retain the other for your private files.
Very truly yours.
/£ 0f-dwar/u;a,y\ EQUITABLE)
- Ap.ril_a±h.,_,.1890
Ay fh 1 1
EATON & LEWIS
Thomas A. Edison Esq.
Dear Sir:-
I send you herewith duplicate copies of the agree*
ment between yourself and Hr. Tate, relating to Mr. Tate's per¬
centage interest in the stobk of the Edison Phonograph Toy Man¬
ufacturing Company, both of which have been d*ly executed by your¬
self and Mr. Tate, and are now in proper condition for fi¬
nal delivery. Will you kindly deliver one copy to Mr. Tate and re¬
tain the other one for your private files'.
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Very truly yours.
EATON & LEWIS
EQUITABLE BUILDING)
■>&' Utlu-A890
Thomas A, Edison Esq,,
Orange, New Jersey
Dear Sir:-
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I send you herewith one copy of the agreement be¬
tween yourself and Mr. Insull with regaid to the latter's ten per
cent, interest in 12,500 shares of the stock of the Edison
Phonograph Toy Maiufacturing Company, duly executed by Mr. Insull.
The other copy has been retained by to. Insull and this one I
send you fbr filing along with your other contracts.
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Very truly yours,
1^5
AMERICAN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, frj
NOU' 95 MILK STREET',' BOSTON',’ MASSACHUSETTS1,' ®
Boston, Mass'. April 14th, 1390.
Edison Phonograph Toy Manufacturing Company,
Mr', Benjamin I”. Stevens., President',
Dear Si r:~
Accompanying please find English Patent, No. 20, 257, issued b
to me December 17th, 1889, for "Improvement in Phonographs," together
with a copy of the drawing, specification, and claims'.
An- application similar to this was filed by me in the United
States Patent Office March 7th, 1390, and i3 serially numbered 3^3075
A similar application was also filed by me in the German
Patent Office a short time later!#-
I am about to fide in England, Germany and the United States,
a series of applications covering- a much simpler and more-econom¬
ical construction of the Phonograph doll, -but cannot, of course,
ipafce public a description of this, until-such applications have
been filedV ... ...
The above is the information asked for in your letter of Eeb-
ruary 13th, 1S90.
I desire to call your attention to the fact that the above
patent and applications secures to me personally the exclusive
right to manufacture and sell in England, Germany and the United
States, the doll now being made for the- Edison Phonograph Toy -
Manufacturing Company, by Mr'. - Edison- and much more1.
I- desire., also, to call your attention to' the fact that it is
new over four -months since the making of the agreement by which the
above and all my future inventions were to become the property of
your Company, and that agreement still remains unsugned.
In view- of the fact that I am expecting shortly to go away
from Boston,, on a somewhat prolonged European tour, I beg leave
that you will not further delay the- execution of this agreement.-
(Signed) W. Y/>, Jacques'.
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New Yoric City, April 18, 1890.
Dear Mr, yate:
I find that the agreement you spoke of today was
duly executed and I shall tomorrow write Mr. Insull a letter ad¬
vising hiny^o reimburse Mr;-Edison. My recollection was that the
agreement Nwas executed was one which the Boston Co, should be a
paryy to* But I findthat we afterwards drew another agreement
which was executed by Mr. Edison and the Works.
Please excuse printed signature.
Very truly yours,
S
( copy)
Boston, Apy. 25th. 1890.
The Edison Phono. Toy Mfg. Co. ,
Boston, Mass.
Gentlemen: -
We are having quite a number of your dolls returned
to us and should think something was wrong. We have had five
or six recently sent back some on account of the works being
loose inside, and others won’t talk and one party from Salem sent
one back stating that after using it for an hour it kept growing
failter until finally it could not be understood. We shouM
like to see somebody at once regarding this matter. Let Mr.
Briggs come up and see us.
We shipped one doll out to St. Joseph, Mo. The party
returned it saying it was not in order and it cost us somewhere
about $1.60 to get it back. Of course all these expenses we
are charging to your account as we do not feel that we are to
blame in the matter as we shipped the dolls as we received them,
consequently we. suppose you will bear us out in this.
Hoping somebody will come yp to enlighten us on this
subject as to what to do as we dislike to send out the dolls
when there are going to be so many returned, we remain,
Respectfully Yours,
(signed) Horace Partridge 4 Co.
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I„1f-',Uo to Prsss thls point. Do you not think we can
ifly+triilft th0 settlement to Hutchinson; all other Directors
3ree to it; answer immediately.
BENJ. P. STEVENS.
aalS°n t0 Ur* St«vens. April 25, 1890.
furthL^Tf* lnL1St not PGrmit -European transaction to go any
Ihi Soi? s lit*? TS8d PerSQnal ju&gmenb upon underwriters.
* ~S v,lta1, Hy consent is withheld subject to decision
alter list has been furnished me. n
T. A. EDISON.
Prom Mr. Tate to Mr. Stevens.
April 25, 1890.
v XHHK Shmiw wist under no circumstances would I consent tc
Yeomans proceeding until he has submitted and we have l !! !,
ST * J”4!™***-- HI. disinclination to Sb2 li.Ttok""
Yra *hOTu.iMi«- «■»» *—«-
A. 0. Tate.
Prom Daniel Weld to Mr. -Edison. . April 26 irqo '
rece^ved this: Romans will neither mail nor cable ^mes
until agreement signed. I have t tom in confidence. Probablv rn
London Sunday. What your reply? ' ' , • bly go
DANIEL WELD, Sec'y.
Prom Mr. Edison to Daniel Weld. April ?6 ,qqn
I refute 0W? ^alf and °n behalf of the ™ison Phonograph Krks
I refuse absoiuteiy to assent to Yeomans' proposition referred to
m your telegram of to-day. "Our • da c is ion is withheld Si «Ttn
inspection of names of underwriters. This is an ultimate.
T. A. Edis
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••• OFFICE OP THE TREASURER v
95 MILK STREET. - . R00m 73.
Boston, April 26th. . j g^ o
A. 0. Tate, Esq.,
Orance , N. J.
Deal- Sir: -
Your fauor confirming telegrams is at hand.
The Diareetors Voted "That the report of the committee"
"on the W. W. Jacques English Patent No. 20, 257, be accepted
' and placed on file. And thal,ao Mr. w. w. Jacques is not pre-"
“sent, the Secretary be instructed to send him a copy of this «
“report, and ask him for an explanation."
Which was accordingly done, and to-day Mr. W. W.
Jacques has tendered his resignation as a Director, »as he is
expecting to go abroad. “
To the writer, he says he is tired of making explanation^
to the Company, and proposes to sell his foreign patents, and
“interfere" with Mr. Edison at Washington.
Yours very truly,
'c/J <U/LCct •
Secretary.
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'•• OFFICE OF THE TREASURER v
95 MILK STREET, - . R00m 73.
A. 0. Tate Esq. ,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir: -
Boston, . 1 89 0
The following are some points raised by Mr. H. K.
Brovrn (counsel), in reference to the report on W. W. Jacques
application to the Company for recompense: -
I». lender the vote referring the matter to the commit¬
tee should not the report cover the question of the proposed
agreement with Mr. Jacques, as well as that of the patent?
( can’t the com. make partial report?)
• 2. Are the date of filing application and the date of
XSSHK
issue of English .patent to Jacques the same? (Bee. 17th.)
If not and if Jacques application was made before the date ( m
(Dec. 10th. ) of the filing of the specifications by Edison,
’.That effect would lsfceh filing have on the Jacques patent?
3. Have you the date of the filing of the application
in Germany by Edison, and if so is ‘prior or subsequent to
March 7th, 1890? Mr. Jacques gives us to understand in his
letter that the date of his German application is subsequent
to March iSkk 7th.
A. 0. T. Esq. , (2) April 28th. /90.
4. Is the original Jacques patent, now held by the
Company broad enough to prevent Jacques from making any form
of combination of phonograph with dolls and toy figures? (leav¬
ing out the question of the right to make use of the phonograph
patents. )
5. Just what is the situation of the original Jacques
patent in Germany. It has been said at some of the meetings
that owing to some informality in the papers or proceedings
(which could be remedied if there was not too much delay) , the
patent had not been issued as Edison I understand has no
phonograph patent in Germany, has this peculiar hitch in the
Jacques patent been foreseen and is there danger of Mr. J.
getting a fresh patent for phono dolls and toy figures and
cutting out the Company in Germany?
I send them to you at his request.
Yours very truly,
^ CUuM ZfrlZcC.
Secretary.
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OFpICE of THE TREASURER V
95 MILK STREET, . . Room n
Boston, . Apri,1...2.9ili. . 1890
A. 0. Tate, Esq.,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir: -
We thank you for your information about Mr. Moriarty
in yours of 28th.
We wrote to you on the 26th, giving you an account of
what the Directors did in reference to W. W. Jacques’ English
pat ent , and now enclose copy of our letter, in case the original
has miscarried.
We also wrote to Messrs Eaton and Lewis on the 26th,
enclosing a check for $309,81, of which we have no acknowledge¬
ment as yet, though we had a letter from Mr. Eaton this morning
about another matter.
Yours very truly,
Secretary.
Edison ^pl^oijograplr Joy jV^aplo. goippapy
'•■ OFFICE of the TREASURER v
95 MILK STREET, . . R00m 73.
Boston, ...May, 1st. .
A. 0. Tate, Esq. ,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir: -
We enclose a copy of a letter received from
to ,-day , in order that you can see in what condition th
arrived in California.
Yours very truly,
^ Ct*u2/ .
.1890
Mr. Kimball
ie dolls
Secretary.
[ENCLOSURE]
Copy for Mr. A. 0. Tate.
..Office of C. H. Kimball,
322 Geary Street. San Fransisoo, April 24th, /90
Mr. Daniel Weld,
Boston, Mass.
Dear Sir: -
I beg to acknowledge the receipt of samples and also
your favor of the 12th instant and have wired fir. Allien for the
shipment of twenty cases Dolls. I also instructed him ift the
same message to fill no more orders for dolls for this market
until further advices from me which will forthcoming in about
ten days at which time I expect. to be in Boston.
This fact is, some mutual understanding must be effected
in reference to prices, for I cannot afford: nor can you expect
me to sell at the schedule of prioes that you have established
m New York, and pay twenty-fivq cents freight on each doll, and
wait sixty days -for the account. Among the samples received
two were broken and four utterly useless for talking purposes,
but those that were. in good order are excellent and will meet
with a ready sale.
I will defer mailing my new contract to you till I
reach Boston.
Very truly yours,
(signed) C. H. Kimball.
pr J. F. B.
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TOY MFG. 00., TELEPHONE. ,6t - 2tai.
NO. 138 FIFTH jAVENUE,
May 6th, 1890.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, N.J.
Dear Sir:-
We beg leave to enclose copy of a letter received today
from Messrs. George Borgfeldt & Co. in reference to a newly patent¬
ed German doll.
Yours very respy,
General Manager.
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copy.
Geo. Borgfeldt & Co. ,
425 & 427 Broome St. Cor Crosby. St. ,
New York, May 5th, 1890.
Mr. Edgar S.‘ Allien,
138 Fifth Ave. , City.-
Dear Sir:-
■ ouxj-mann wno 1
reports that there is a German doll being made in competition with
yours patented in Germany as well as in the U.S. The prioe
is about 20 narks 'per piece. The article is known as the
rammophon dolls," The No. of the German patent is 45048
Have you heard anything of this before?
Yours truly,
(Signed) Geo. Borgfeldt. & Co.
J^cUsoi} ^opograpl} 'Toy jy^aqfrt. gonjpany.
••‘ OFFICE OF THE TREASURER •••
95 MILK STREET. - . Room 73.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq. ,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
Boston, . May... 16th, . x 89 0
We received the following cablegram this morning, which
we forward for your inspection: “Heady tender money few days"
(From Brusselles to Phonodoll) “Yeomans. «
Yours very truly,
a*vct/
Secretary,
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, N, J,
Dear Sir:
Re Waiver of Royalties of E. P. T. M. Co. I send you
enclosed duplicate copies of the proposed agreement waiving the.,
royalties due from the E. P. T. Mfg. Oo. for the quarter year end¬
ing March 31st, 1890, under their agreement of August 6th, last.
These agreements differ in no respect from those executed by you
waiving the royalties for the preceding quarter, save in a few
slight changes necessitated by the fact that it is a different
quarter's royalties which are thereby waived. Will you kindly ex-
eoute one copy of the same and return it to me, so that 1 may for¬
ward it to the E. P. T. Mfg. Oo. at Boston.
Very truly yours,
j^Usoif^pI^i^rapl} Toy jV^ujI'o.
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Dear Sir:-
Enelosed please find copy of the agreenent between
yourself and the Edison Phonograph Toy Manufacturing Company,
waiving royalties for the quarter year ending March 31st., 1890,
recently executed by you. x send you this copy for your privato
files and have to-day mailed to the Toy Co,- Hi e original agree¬
ment ,
Very truly yours.
Dear Sir: -
We have been visited by Mr. Charles J. Bell (Washington
D. C.) of the American Graphaphone Co., who read us a letter from
his patent Lawyer, that informed us that we were infringing on
their patents by selling the talking Doll now on the market.
He had bought the doll in Washington and had it examined,
and talks of putting an injunction on this Company, but will call
again about July 8th, for another interview.
Our infringements are on? latent No. 341,214 March 4th
1886, page 6 and 7, claims No. 7, 8, 10, 12, 17, 18, 19, 22 and 24:
Patent No. 341,288 May 4th. 1886, page 9, 10 and 11, claims No..
4, 5, 6, 7, 22, 37, 39: Patent No. 275,379 .December 27th, 1887,
pages 6 and 7, claims No. 7, 20 and 21.
Kindly let us know how to proceed in this matter.
Yours very truly,
Seeretary.
?: United States.
^Hsoif^pljorfogrnplj 'toy ]Y[apfg. goippapy.
Orange , N. J.
Dear Sir:-
The. following cablegrams have been exchanged to;-day: -
“Wrote tenth fully explaining necessity draft caused by meeting “
“your views all money subscribed privately have given one hundred"
“twenty days make final complete payment is this satisfactory will"
"reP°y within two weeks if required answer." “Yeomans"
Have you received Yeomans letter tenth. He states money secured"
“ I believe in his success would advise payment of draft." “Field"
"Yeomans care Ivfunroe, Paris."
Letter not received. Draft not honored. Have been relying"
“on your Cable May sixteenth ready tender money few days. Will"
“not agree to further time, but will entertain cash offer. Gannot"
^^convey free Edison’s rights without his consent." “Phonodoll"
*Montie. Ed low. London, “
"Yeoman’s draft not honored. Had no authority to dray/. His cable"
“gram of May sixteenth says money ready in a few days. We dont »
"know what to make of him. We await his letter of tenth which “
T. A. Edison (2)
“has not arrived. “
"Stevens"
June Sat'd /90.
We have not seen Mr. Eaton here yet, and are awaiting
your action about selling European patents free of your royalties
and manufacturers rights.
Yours very truly,
Secretary.
J^MH^lViiograpli Toy jVJanfg. gonjpapy
.n.e...24.th., . 189 0
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir: -
We received the following this morning: •> Whole Irwhnt
"secured hy contract on Edison’s conditions expense incurred ac- »
" corclinG:ly rendered draft necessary to ask for offer would de- •
"stroy confidence and contract all consistent with May sixteenth"
^cable pay draft draw on me repayment certain. "
" Yeomans »
and sent this in reply
"Yeomans care Munroe"
"Paris"
Awaiting your letter tenth. Cannot understand «
"Cablegram."
Will you authorize us to send the following cablegram
to Mr. Yeomans,
"Edison’s conditions were cash put up, or subscription"
“guaranteed to his satisfaction. Cable names."
An early answer will oblige,
J^SQif^onograpli Toy JV[aptg. (Jorppapy.
V OFFICE OF
95 MILK STREET,
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..June... .3.0th., . 189 0
A. 0. Tate, Esq.,
Private Secretary.
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir: -
(jU
We beg to acknowledge receipt of your, favors of June 26th,
and thank you for your attention to waivers of royalties.
We had a pleasant and satisfactory interview,, last Friday,
with Mr. Lewis, who will be able to instruot you why the sale of our
foreign patents cannot go qn until Mr. Edison has consented to waive
his royalties and manufacturers percentage.
Yours very truly,
Secretary.
We beg to acknowledge receipt of your two favors of June
27th, and note that if Mr. ' Charles J. Bell takes any steps towards
getting out an injunction on this Company, for infringments of patents
in the manufacturing of the doll Phonograph, you wish us to refer him
to you.
In regard to instructions to Mr. Yeomans, we have not as
yet positively inflormed him that he could sell our foreign patents
free of your manufacturing rights and royalties, and we do not think
we had sufficient authority from you to do so. •
Mr. Lewis called upon us on the 20th, and his proposed
solution of the difficulties in which we find ourselves at present,
in regard to our foreign patents, seemed quite satisfactory..
Yours very truly,
fasces,
■ Secretary.
J^fHsorj^Iioqoijrap1^ Toy jV[ai(ii|. ^orqpaqy.
• W OFFICE OF THE TREASURER v
95 MILK STREET, - - Room 73.
f' I (]j ”0 Boston, July ...2nd, x8g o
A. 0. Tate, Esq. ,
Private Secretary,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir: -
Your favor of 1st in re: exhibition of dolls at Minneapolis
has our attention.
We shall be glad to have Mr. Edison receive every benefit
possible from the proposed exhibition, and suppose the reason that
Mr. Allien names Mr. Lowenthal, is on the score of expense, and he
(Mr. L.) would probably make the same free of charge to the Company,
whereas at the Lennox Lyceum we were out of pocket, so far as dollars
and cents were concerned. Does Mr. Edison propose to make the
display at his own expense?
We do not care to bind ourselves to any contract for any
exhibition, until we have had the new model do'll submitted to the
directors for their examination.
As the time is approaching when we shall have to pay the
North American Phono. Co. the royalty on our. sales of Mechanisms for
A. 0. Tate, Esq., (2) duly 2nd. /fiO.
the past quarter, will you kindly have the tv.ro “waivers" sent you on
Jung 2ord signed, as soon as possible, and returned to us, and
oblige/
Yours very truly,
Secretary.
Copy.
Brus sells , July 2nd. 1390.
Banicl Weld Esq. ,
Seo. Edison Phono. Toy U£g, Co., Boston.
Bear Sir:-
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In view of what both Mr. It. M. yield and myself considered
your special request vis: that you would entertain a Cash offer, I
at once endeavored to o'dtain such and without what I consider any
dcmaje to my Contracts with these peoplp did obtain the following
offer viz: To pay you an immediate 1,30,000. in Cash and later on when
company fully organized £40,000 in fully paid shares. The Capital
Company to be reduced from 500,000 to £200,000 pounds Sterling
equivalent. This I cabled viz: “At your request without * *
"prejudice to my Contract or rights have obtained offer thirty thou-"
“sand pounds Cash, forty shares, Capital Company two hundred answer*
•Yeomans ilmssells." "*
To wl’.ioh I have your reply viz:" We will entertain no offer"
less toon price heretofore made you have no request from us to obtain"
"oifer our cable twenty* third June was based on yours sixteenth May"
"end meant wo would take money if ready your letter not yet received."
ihis was somevmat disheartening and not clearly understood for of
course nad I the money ready, called for under my Contract and
authority from you, you would be obliged to take it, I replied
"Yours an enigma. However be patient and get your money. All con-"
“iracted for. noth Field myself misled your saying will entertain"
case oiler. Place one thousand ry credit Munroes groat trouble ac-“
"couni dishonored draft answer Paris." An explanation’ is due you -
regarding the sixteenth of May Cable. I have for a. long tine had
h 100,000 underwritten as stated to Mr. Hutchins
pcntcdly cabled to you. To call this amount in
ization or .issue in order to meet Mr. Edison’s •
. 1 finally arranged with the Chairm
he would get Bankers to Cash underwriters Subscriptions,
to have done so, urging me to obtain from you .immediate 'l
when here end re-
itlumt public organ-
shea, was tiie pro¬
of ry Syndicate here that
He claimed
I then cabled you the lGth. of May Cable, subsequently he .informed
me that certain Bankers of his "group* as he termed it, declined, at
, 8Wne Unif! assuring me that he would get others to take their
, dace bays and weeks went by with the same story, until I notified
nim that the -matter could stand no longer. Then came your request
lor an offer as before written.
The Company .1 have now in Europe, -./ill at once be organized,
called in rapidly as possible, and the payments weds vou
_ n exact accordance with the terms of my Contract. In con¬
clusion lot mo Beg you to assist mo, you want your money, I want mine,
oy pulling together we can get it, I have 'carefully guard'ed and de¬
luded your property, I only ask your consideration accordingly.
Yours faithfully,'
the mon-
in full
elusion let
(signed) B. M. Yeomans.
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Thomas A. Edison Esq.,-
Orange, N.J.
Dear Sir : -
Re Toy Phonograph - Yeomans.
Sinoe receiving the letter addressed to our Mr. Eaton
hy Mr. Tate, under date of June 6, we have examined the corresponds
ence which has passed between you and all parties, on the subject
of your relations to The Edison Phonograph Toy Manufacturing Co.
-and D. M. YeomanB, respecting a sale of European rights, and we
•haye had a conference with Mr. Weld, the Secretary of the Company
referred to, upon the same subject.
We cannot see that you have parted with any rights whi-ch
were reserved to you by your contracts of August 6, 1889 with the
'Toy Company. You have, to be sure, joined that Company in accredit¬
ing Mr. Yeomana as an agent authorized to negotiate a sale of
.European rights owned by the Toy Company, but you are personally
unaer no contract obligations to Mr. Yecmans, nor to the Toy
Company, to part with your royalty or manufacturing rights except
upon 'terms to bfc siAmlUto to £6u iittd
T.A.E.2,
At the same time it is undoubtedly true that the arrange¬
ment between the Toy Company and Yeomans, found in his letter of
Nov. 26, 1889, and the Company's subsequent letter of acceptance,
is unoertain as to duration and indefinite as to the right^ to
terminate it. It might well be supplanted by an arrangement under
which both a time limit should be put to his agency, and under
mhich, during the remaining period of his agency, he should be
able to show the members of his proposed syndicate, full authority
to deal as to all rights, including royalty and manufacturing
rights. The arrangement should be explicit, however, that in the
event of his failing to carry out the pending negotiations with the
Anglo- French syndicate, he should then surrender his authority and
papers and withdraw from the field, with mutual releases of all
obligations.
In discussing this matter with Mr. Weld, we suggested
that if the only thing, which stood in the way of Mr. Yeomans
carrying througi his present deal and obtaining the money and
stock coming to the Toy Company, was your unwillingness to send
a letter or cable authorizing him to sell free of your rights, this
difficulty could be met and overcome by the intervention of a
Trust Company on the other side. An escrow agreement can be pre¬
pared under whi ch both the Toy Company and yourself may exeoute
T. A, 33. 3.
and deliver absolute assi gnments and releases of your rights to
a Trust Company, the same to be deliverable by it to Mr. Yecmans
or to his order, at any time within three months, upon the Trust
Company receiving to the order of the Toy Company ( or of tte Toy
Company and yourself), ^100,000 in cash, and stock in the new
Company equalling one-eighth of its capital stock, the latter not
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to exceed^300,000. It should then be provided by the esqrow agree¬
ment that if the stock and cash were not forthcomihg within the
period named, the Trustee should redeliver the assignments to you,
be relieved from the trusted that the authority of Yeomans should
be surrendered.
We suggested the above as a good plan, but distinctly
stated that we did not know how you would ^ieW it . We did say
to Mr. Weld, however, that we would suggest it to you and ttat. he
would then probably hear from you in relation to it. So far ae
the details of this plan are concerned we cannot perceive any
difficulties. Its advantages lie in the increased facilities
which Mr. Yeomans would have in dealing with his syndicate, am in
the prompt and conclusive means which it presents of ridding
yourselves of Mr. Yeomans, if he fails within the period named to.
carry out a sale.
We shall be glad to discuss this with you, should you
deem it desirable.
Yours truly,
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-n^OS^P PRIVATE TELEPHONE LINE.
CONFIRMATION OF MESSAGE.
NOTE— This confirmation
be assumed to 1
should be cheeked with the origh
be correct unless advised to the com
mil message immedi,
trary by telephone.
ately on receipt. It will
Name of Person Sending.
Name of Person Receiving. !
Time.
I Date.
. - . Maguire.. . 1
. Coats... .
. 11:60. .
• . July... 10, 1890/r.Y9
From whom received : A . 0 . Tate , Esq . ,
Samuel Insull, Esq., 16 Broad St., New York.
I will advise the Boston people that we will be prepared
to submit new models on Tuesday or Wednesday, and that on Monday X
will telegraph which day. X think one day's notice will be suffi¬
cient, but if not, they will have time to object before you leave.; •
I can take the Gouraud letters to New York, but I am not
sure about the Phonograph Works 'Balance Sheet. If they strike a
balance at the first fire, I can have the Sheet in tine to leave"
here on the 2:07 train and meet you about 3:15, .tt.
Shall I go in anyway with the Gouraud letter?
If it suits you better Mr. Insull will leave this matter
until to-morrow morning if you can come in
then.
3^s°^°Wapl, Toy jy^ar^fo. gonqpapy.
'•' OFFICE OF THE TREASURER v
95 MILK STREET, . . Room 73,
Boston, . July....iat.h, . 189 0
Thomas A. Edison, Esq. ,
Orange, N. J.
Bear Sir: -
At a meeting of the Directors of this Company, held
yesterday, at which the models of the new Doll were examined, the
following vote was passed:
Whereas the models submitted by Mr. Edison appear to
be satisfactory it is:
Voted, ttjdt Mr^lfdison be requested to make by hand i
soon as possible^C^T fifty machine|m of materials to be agreed
. Magovern.
upon between MrT^Ison and Mr.
_J£ourg'''very truly,
Secretary.
.l^sop^pljoqogi'aj)^ *Xoy ^onjpapy.
••• OFFICE OF THE TREASURER v
95 MILK STREET, - - Room 73.
• Boston, . July .21.S.1.,.
EDISON’S TALKING DOLL. f\ V R Q
Mr. Thomas A. Edison, \jJ , . \ \
"S\ \ V
Referring again to the matter of wai^r by you for a time
of the guaranty of this Company that royalties payable under its
contract with you of Aupist 6th, 1889 shall amount to at least ten
thousand dollars per year: in view of the continued delays which
have arisen in the prosecution of the business of this Company with
the caused of which, you are familiar, this Company desires to urge
you to waive such guaranty altogether for the first year (ending
Sept. 30. 1890)
This question was discussed at the last meet in;; of the
Board of Birectors and Mr. Tate has no doubt fully informed you of
what was said. The Company feels that its interests in the matter
are identical with your own and that it does not need to address any
arguments to you on the subject.
A letter to the North American Phonograph Company asking
for a similar concession from it, is herewith enclosed with the
*• A* E- (2) July 21st. /5B.
hope that you will see fit to deliver it and at the sane time use
your influence to secure favoraole action thereon.
Yours very truly,
Secretary.
P. S. Enclosed find a draft of acreement which we would suggest as
appropriate to secure the result desired. We trust you may see your
way clear to execute it or something like it.
_ [ENCLOSURE]
Referring to an agreement dated August 6th. 1889 by anti
betwr*1 Thomas A. Edison of the first part and Edison Phonograph Toy
MapTacturing Company of the second part whereby said first party,
p'anted said second party a certain right and license in relation to
/the manufacture and sale in all countries of the world outside of the
United States and Dominion of Canada of phonographs or speaking machi¬
nes for use in or in association with dolls or toy figures as a part
thereof for the amusement of children:
Whereas by Article Second of said agreement said second
party obligated itself to pay said first party certain royalties .on
inventions and impfcovements covered by said agreement anci' manufactured
and sold thereunder by said second party and also undertook that such
royalties should aggregate at least ten thousand dollars for each
and every year beginning with the first day of Octbber all of which
is more fully set out in said Article Second, and
Whereas difficulties and delays not forseen or contem¬
plated by said parties to said agreement have arrisen in the way of
carrying on the business contemplated therein.
Nov/ therefore in consideration of the premises and of one
dollar paid by said second party to said first party the receipt
whereof is hereby acknowledged, the said Thomas A. Edison hereby
agrees that as regards the year ending September SO. 1890 the certain
guaranty that the royalties for the said year shall aggregate at
least ten thousand (10.000) dollars as provided for in said Article
Second of said agreement shall be and hereby is waived the intention
being as regards said ye"?ar to base such royalties, on actual sales
if any made by said second party under said agreement whatever the
In witness whereof the said Thomas A* Edison has hereunto
amount .
)^cnsoi}‘s^pIjon9grapl]
95 MILK STREET,
Thomas A. Edist
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir: -
Toy (^onrtpapy.
THE TREASURER •.*
Room 73.
Boston, July ...2.2nd., . 189
Enclosed please find copy of a letter from our counsel
W. S. Hutchinson in response to our request, containing comments and
suggestions intrelafcion to the papers drawn by Mr. Lewis in reference
to the Yeomans matter.
We hppB to hear from you in regard to the same at your
earliest convenience.
Yours very truly,
.y-J ,f/
Secretary.
[ENCLOSURE]
„ , copy. ' f
21. July, 1890.
Edison Phonograph Toy Mfg. Co. ,
95 Milk St., Boston.
Gentlemen:
Two forms of agreement from the office of Mess. Eaton and
Lewis, submitted by Mr. Tate as a means of solution of some of the
difficulties in the Yeomans 'matter been handed me for exami¬
nation and comment, and I beg to say.
1. I understand that Yeomans’ plan is to form his corpor¬
ation in England and not France.
2. Both instruments provide for the payment to Mr. Edison
of L32000 Sterling at all events, leaving out of account altogether
the fact that Mr. Yeomans is to receive a large commission and that
considerable expense has been paid in the matter. As I understand
the agreement, commissions and expenses are to first come out of the
ElOOjOOO, and then division is to be made, 32/100 of the balance
going to Mr. Edison and 68/100 to you. The Stock being clear of
expense or commission is to be divided in the same proportion.
Both the instruments ought to be altered accordingly. ( See agreement
to which Mr. Yeomans is made a party- hereinafter called the “Yeomans
paper"-- pp 2 and 3, and the other -- hereinafter called the “license
P-9.)
3. Article Fourth of the Yeomans paper should for the same
reason provide that payment to trustee is to be charged to expenses
[ENCLOSURE]
• K ' -2-
and paid out of the £100,000 before" division.
As I understand it Yeomans commission was to be £10,000
Less amount advanced him for expenses 500
£9 , 500
To which is to be added expense incurred which including the £500
above mentioned amounts at this date to (dollars) $5,670.96
4. The license should recite your combination patents as
well as those of Mr. Edison (see p. 1) and should also under article
First, give either an assignment of or license under such combination
patents for the countries covered by the license.
5. In the "license p. 7 line 3, I would insert the words
“him or" after the words "acquired by" and on p, 7. line 6th. from
the bottom, insert "hereby" after "Edison" and in the next line after
reserved by him" insert “whether by said agreement dated August 6th,
1889 or otherwise. 11
6. I cannot see that the recital near the bottom of p. 5.
of the license is vitallor important and think it had best be omitted.
As matters stand now it is at least open to question whether you
ought to formally recognize Mr. Edison’s assignment to the E. p. Works
7. If the sale goes through, your Company will hardly do
any foreign business for some time to come as the license covers all
the countries where it would be worth while to work at present.
in such case therefore Mr. Edison ought to- agree to waive for the
future your guarantee that his royalties shall aggregate at least
[ENCLOSURE]
9. 2 -5-
$10,000 per year, and base his royalties only on actual sales made
m countries outside the license. You ought to have such an agree¬
ment before you execute the license.
8. As a general proposition and in this case I think it
much better in an instrument to incorporate former instruments by the
briefest possible description with the phrase “Referring to" or
“To which reference may be had". This not only saves many long re¬
citals but, what is of more consequence obviates the danger of mis¬
quotation or misinterpretation of the former instrument and consequent
confusion. But I do not think the point vital in this case and am
not asked to draw a form to be substituted for that before me.
9. The recital at the top of p. 2. in the Yeomans paper
should be omitted and in the recital immediately following the words
“negotiate and” should be stricken out. Mr. Yeomans claims to have
a sale already negotiated.
10. At the end of Article Second, Yeomans paper should be
added “first cancelling all signatures thereto",
11. In &= the license, p 3 line 2 insert “and Canada”
after "United States of America, *
12. In both documents in the testimonium clause insert be¬
fore “parties" the words “respective corporations". This is of course
matter of form merely and of no substantial consequence.
Yours rspy.
(sgd) Winifield S. Hutchinson.
„• ^Hsot^opograpli ]V[ai(fsi. (^oippapy.
••• OFFICE OF THE TREASURER v
95 MILK STREET. - . Room 73.
Boston, . July....22nd., . 1890
cablegram as follows:
“To Phonodoll, Boston."
"London, July 22nd, 1890.
Whole money ready to put up cable Collette"
"solicitor of buyers 2 Victoria Mansions Westminster London that all"
“your and Edisons right's ready for transfer against cash and shares"
“which will be sent Boston if you require, “
"Yeomans"
This begins to look like business. Will you authorize
this Company to send cablegram to Collette as follows:'
Collette, 2 Victoria Mansions, y/fc
Westminster London.
Replying to Yeomans cable, our and Edisons rights, Great Britain
Channel Islands Continental Europe ready for transfer against cash
and shares delivered in Boston.
T. A. E. (a) July 22nd, 1890
And- if such cablegram is sent shall it be sent on the
understanding that in ease sale goes through you will waive $10,000
guarantee for the future as per Section 7. of Mr. Hutchinson’s letter
of which copy is enclosed.
If you desire to expedite matters a telegram from you as
follows:
“Send cablegram as proposed, guaranty waived if sale goes'
“through. “
Will be construed as an affirmative answer to both the
above questions.
Yours very truly,
Secretary.
[ATTACHMENT]
“Upon receipt in Boston of One Hundred Thousanl Pounds cash
“together with shares representing one-eighth interest in
PConipany whose capital does not exceed Three Hundred Thous¬
and Pounds less expenses and conmissions which must not
“exceed Twelve Thousand Pounds myself and the 'Edison Phono¬
graph Works will in consideration of thirty-two per cent '
"of said cash and shares execute any papers necessary to
"transfer our rights Great Britain Continental Europe and
“the Channel Islands to the said Company upon the condition
“that my transfer of manufacturing rights to the Edison
"Phonograph Works shall be recognised by your Company which
“is necessary as the Phonograph Works now own these rights.
(Signed) Thomas A* Edison;"
y^so^lmmvuPl} Toy go.
KfV^ / ’•* °FFIGE OF THE TREASURER -.-
* MILK STREET, - . Room 73.
Boston 1 890.
C2.
EDISON’S TALKING OOU.
JJdIs°il"^P1tonofirap1t Tfoy ]V[aptg. (Jonjpapy.
OFFICE OF, THE TREASURER
95 MILK STREET, - . - Room 73.
Boston,.
•July 20th , . 189
Hear Sir: -
Relying on\your telegram and letter of July
25th, receipt of which we acknowledge, we have sent the following
cablegram to Collette:
“Collette, 2 Victoria Mansions, «
“Westminster London. “
“ Replying to Yeomans cable twenty-second
“Upon receipt in Boston of one hundred thousand pounds 'sterling cash
“and one eighth of shares of Company whose total capital shall not"
exceed three hundred thousand pounds, transfer of our and Edison’s"
rights Great Britain Channel Islands Continental Europe will be made
to said Company" “Phonodoll"
We hope to hear from you very soon as to waiver of
royalties by yourself and North American Phonograph Company.
Yours very truly,
Secretary.
J5dis0T»"Pl!0n°flrapLt >J^y ]V[ai(to. ^orqpaqy.
••• OFFICE OF
-K STREET,
A. 0. Tate, Esq,,
Private Secretary.
Orange. N. J.
Dear Sir: -
We beg to- thank you for yours o*f 26th, 26th, 26th,
and 26th (personal), and for yyour promised attention to the matter
of the "Waivers11, which we are desirous of having settled as soon
as possible.
We think we should have something from Mr. Edison to
the effect that he will waive a fixed amount of royalties on foreign
business, if the sale by Yeomans goes through, as seems possible at
present.
We have heard nothing more from Mr. Yeomans, since we
last wrote to Mr. Edison.
You may possibly see Mr. Mackintosh' before he returns
Yours very truly,
Secretary.
to Boston.
-l^S0r;@^>l»0I*0=I“uP1^ Toy ]Y(Wg. (^orrfpapy.
2 TREASURER y
95 MILK STREET,
Room Z3. /
VTA v V f\#\
Thomas A* Edison, Esq., =r'‘J^
r.x V ‘ /
EDISON’S TALKING DOLL. Orange N. J
Dear Sir: -
Bosto^, . . 189 0
xv ftfs'M*
IV" vis ffl
follows: -
“To Phonodo'll Bodton1
We have received cablegram from \:oy4tte 1
“London, July 31st, 1890. 11
"Two injunctions against Company gouraud"
“and sterioscopic Company issue stopped Company hold you liable."
“Collette"
We understand from Mr. Hutchinson that Collette let drop
to him in London (when he first called to enquire of Yeomans where¬
abouts) that he (Collette) was counsel for the Steriescopic Com-’
pany/ or at least for some of its principal members. This makes
his cablegram look very fishy especially as. we suppose Col, Gouraud *<
relations with you to be such that he would not care to antagonize
your interests.
We therefore propose to send the following cablegram to
Yeomans : -
Yeomans, Care Munroe, Paris.
Is not Collette counsel Stereoscopic Company,
Answer. .
T. A. E.' (2)
July 31st , 1390.
? And to answer Collettes as follows
Collette, 2 Victoria Mansions, Westminster, London.
We cabled you on Yeomans assurance money ready. If money not
ready consider cablegram withdrawn; we understand you are counsel
Steroscopic Company.
Eut as you are largely interested we have thought proper
to do nothing until you have had an opportunity to make suggestions
Please telegraph us on receipt of this either-
"See no objections to sending cables” or
"Wait my letter with suggestions" and we will
govern oourselves accordingly.
Yours respectfully,
Secretary.
^Hsoif^onograpli 'Toy jV^ai^f'g. ^orppapy.
'•• OFFICE OF THE TREASURER v
95 MILK STREET, - . R00m 73.
Boston,...
Thomas A. Edison, Esq. ,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir: -
89 0
Mr. Mackintosh cabled as follows to a friend of
his in London, to ascertain the standing of the Doll Company there:
“Dressers (Wish you would ascertain) whether Edison Phonograph"
“Toy offering twenty sixth instant successful or underwritten."
“Helper (This is very important) Cable quickly." .
in. reply he received to-day the following cablegram:- “Sufficient"
"doll subscribed injunction threatened unalloted."
Yours very truly,
Secretary.
^Ufior^'pljonoorapl) T^y ]V[apfg. (Jorqpapy.
'office of THE TREASURER V
rMILK STREET, - .. Room 73.
Boston, . Ausu.sl...<Jnd., . 189 0
Uhoijj&s A. Edison, Esq.
talking DDu. / Orange , N. J.
D&4, r Sir: -
' We have this day received from you the following
telegram: -
"float send Cable to Yeomans regarding Steroseopic Com-11
“pany Cable Collette as proposed but eliminate the following »
“Sentence: We understand you are counsel Steroseopic Company,"
And have sent you reply by telegram as follows: -
11 Please let us know"
“at once what you think of Gouraud’s interference, meanwhile we“
"may take no action at present.11
Our idea in taking any notice at all of Collettes ’
cablegram was to signify to him and Yeomans our belief that they
themselves had procured the injunction of the Stereoscopic people,
in order to conceal the fact that they could not raise the money,
or in order to make it a basis for a claim for reduction oif price.
To send but ofae cablegram and that in the form you suggest, elimi¬
nates the only thing which according to our idea it 'was worth while
to say: and it seems to us quite as well to say nothing.
T. A. E. (2) August 2nd /DO.
> Col. Gouraud’s appearance on the scene is puzzeling,
Vie cannot think that he is in collusion with Yeomans and we had
supposed that h.is interests and yours were so nearly identical
that he would not care, perhaps would not dare to interfere with
you: and even if we are wrong about this, we suppose your opinion
as to the significance 0f any action of his, is worth more than
anybody’s else.
VVe therefore are inclined to rest, quiet until we have
your ideas, feeling that until we can act with more intelligence
than now, silence is safest.
We should be glad to hear from you at length as soon as
you can make it convenient, and should also be pleased if you
could tell us anything about the Stereosoopic Company.
Yours very truly,
Secretary.
. , <7_^-*~<-.-fZ^' -£*2
/
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^Pl}°n°t>rapl) 'Joy jV^ar|fg. ^oiqpaqy.
E TREASURER v
Boston, 5th.
!:yr- . 189 0
A. 0. Tate, Esq.,
Private Secretary,
Orange , N. J.
Dear Sir: -
We have to thank you for your fa^or of August
1st, and the following -telegrams: -
“Orange, N.J. Aug. 2nd, 1390.
“To Edison Toy Phono. Mfg. Co.“
“95 Milk St., Boston,"
“Have. cabled Gouraud for explanation which shall probably"
receive Monday. » (sgd) Thos A. Edison.
"Orange, N. J. Aug. 5th, 1890.“
“To Daniel Weld, Secty,
"Edison Co., 95 Milk St., Boston."
"Reed, following from Gouraud Prospective infringes our »
“rights grossly." (Sgd) A< 0t Tate.
Orange, M. J. Aug. 5th , 1890."
"Daniel Weld Secty,"
"Edison Toy Mfg. Co.,"
"95 Milk St. , Boston"
“Insull will attend meeting any time Thursday have you reed"
A. 0. Tate (2)
August Bth/90.
"cory prospeotua engl.ish Co. or have explanations been mailed"
,"t0 y°u- “ ' ( sgd) A. 0. Tate,
and have sent you the following: -
“A. 0. Tate"
"Orange, H. J. “
"Boston, August 5th, 1890.“
"Your two received. Directors meeting one o’clock Thursday"
"Nothing more from Europe, direct- See London Financial Mev/s. »
“July twenty, for prospective. “ fsgd) Daniel Weld Secty.
We have heard nothing lately from Yeomans or Collette,
but have bben shown a copy of “The London Financial Mews11 of July
2i3th/90, which contains the prospectus of the Company proposed to be
floated by them. They certainly offer for sale rights which
Yeomans did not obtain from this Company, where he did get them
from we do not know.
Vie trust you may be able to obtain a copy of the above
mentioned newspaper, and to let us know what Mr. Edison thinks of
the advertisement of “The Edison Phonographic Toy' -and Automaton
Co.“ L’d. on last page.
A meeting of the Directors of this Company has been oall-
and
ed for Thursday at one o’clock, and we trust you~oF Mr. Insull
will be present.
Yours very truly,
Secretary.
.V Hdisoi**pl|onofirapIi Joy ]Y[anfii. gonjpapy.
••• OFFICE OF THE TREASURER v
95 MILK STREET, \ . R00m 73.
A. 0. Tate, Esq.,
Private Seqretai
Pear S.ir:-
A \s r * /BostOl
44
i.5.t.....U.t.h.y . 189 0
We ben to acknowledge receipt of your favors of 5th, and
6th. inst, and of telegrams mentioned therein, and refer you to our
other letter of this date for information about the European Company.
In matter of waiver of royalties we beg to reply to yours
of 6tii. inst, by saying that the prospect Of receipt of any money
from Europe is now so slight that Mr. Edison’s point is no longer
applicable.
But even if we were in funds we think that we ought to
be relieved on the .strength of the fact,, that under our Mfg. contract
with Mr. Edison, we have not been able to establish a domestic busi¬
ness, let alone a foreign one. If this fact were occasioned by
neglect on our part of course we ought to pay just the same, but we
have not been guilty of lack of diligence, and therefore feel as if
we ought to be let off.
We understood Mr. Insull to say that he would personally
o. Tate (2) Aug u/60.
take this matter in hand both as to Mr. Edison and the North American
Phonograph Co. We will take it as a favor if you will mention the
matter to him and make sure if our understanding is correct.
Yours very truly,
Secretary.
•“ li^LjS01^ "^P^o.nogPapli Tfoy jV^arjI'g. ^orppapy.
2 TREASURER •••
Room 73.
Thomas A. Edison, Esq. , 1
95 MILK STREET. " \
^ :t'
^ '! Boston, . ..auguiLt.....U.ttv,. . 189O
■•y
We be;-; to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the 5th.
The cable we sent to Collette was as follows:
"Boston, August 7th, 1090."
"Collette, 2 Victoria Mansions, Westminster, London. 11
“We cabled you twenty-sixth, relying on Yeomans assurance money ready"
' Your Prospectus excessive and unwarranted. Have written." Phonodoll"
and we have received from Mr. Yeomans the following:
From Spa to Phonodoll, August 9th, 1090.
“My assurance strictly correct prospectus not excessive dont shirk."
"Yeomans"'
To show you what other advices we have in re: the European
business of this Company, we enclose copies off#
1st.- Letter from John Higgles, August 2/90 to Mr. J. W.
Mackintosh.
2nd.- Letter from Messrs. Collette & Collette "Solicitors
for the Edison Phonographic Toy Co. Limited," London August 2nd, 1890,
T. A. E. (2) Aug, 11/90.
to this Company.
3rd.- Copy of a letter to them, of this date, which we
propose to send to' them soon.
We' shall be glad to have any suggestions from you in
reference to the above.
Yours very truly,
. <) a , x < *£ tlTLCd.-
Secretary,
[ENCLOSURE]
>• Copy of letter from Mr. John Higgles to Mr. J. VI. Mackintosh.
Toy Co.' • ' Dalston, Aug. 2nd, 1890.
do a-/ Mr. Maekintosh,
On the 31st I received the enclosed cable. X did
not know the Solicited of the Toy Co. , so I called on Mr. Eliott
who knows him well. He gave me a letter to Mr. Collette (the Soli¬
citor) which put mo on the velvet at once. The first two days the
applications for Shares came in freely, sufficient to warrant going
to allotment. The morMng of the -third day they had legal notice
from the Edison United Phonograph Co. of New Jersey by their London
Coibmissioner Col. Gouraud that- they held prior rights and should main¬
tain them. These people Mr. Collette said had some ground for a
claim so much so that it was not deemed best to proceed to allotment.
Hence the matter will rest until that is adjusted. He thought it
was more difficult to place a thing on’ the market at the second trial
than at the first.
He also received notice from the London Stereoscopic it.
Phonographic Co. Limited of Loudon of their exclusive right to use
phonographs. This latter the Solicitor did not think much of, thought-
they would not be sustained in Court,
I cabled you as pr enclosed sorry I could not state some¬
thing more cheerful. Mr. Collette said they had cabled these things
to Boston the 31st, but I deemed it best to follow instructions and
be sure, you knew the facts.
Very truly yours,
(sgd) John Higgles,
[ENCLOSURE]
Copy.
2 Victoria Mansions,
Victoria Street,
London, S.W. 2 Aug, 1890
The Edison Phonographic Toy Manufacturing Coy. ,
Gentlemen: -
Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. A.
We confirm the receipt of your cable message to us of the
26th ult. as follows
“To Collette 2 Victoria Mansions “
“Westminster London"
“Relying to Yeomans cable twenty second upon receipt in Boston of“
“one hundred thousand pounds sterling cash and one eighth of shares"
“of Company whose total capital shall not exceed Three hundred thou-"
“sand transfer of our and Edisons rights Great Britain, Channel Islands
11 Cont inent 1 Europe will be made to said Company. PhonOdoll"
On this basis and on the Contracts between Mr. Yeomans
and your Company The Edison Phonographic Toy Coy. Ld. was formed in
this country having a capital of L300,000. The subscription list
was opened on Monday morning last and a large number of subscriptions
came in and ample would have been raised for payment of the purchase
money and provision for the working capital. On Tuesday the 29th
ult. however we received notice of intended proceedings.
1. At the suit of the London Stereoscopic Coy Ld. who
[ENCLOSURE]
(2)
claim to be the exclusive licensees of the Edison Phonograph and all
improvements for the United Kingdom.
2. By the London Committee of the Edison United Phono¬
graph of Mew Jersey represented by Col. Gouraud, who stated that we
were infringing on the rights held by them.
3. By Mr. Anders claiming a prior Phonographic Patent of
November 1387 previous to the date of the first British Patent of
Edison which our Company proposed to acquire the right to use.
In each of the above cases legal proceedings were threat¬
ened if the Prospectus and advertisements were continued to be issued.
Under these circumstances our Company had no alternative but Lo stop
the issue and on the 31st ult. I cabled to you as follows:
"Notice two injunctions by Gouraud and Stereoscopic Com-”
"pany Issue stopped. Company hold you liable"
We regret that up to the present time we are without any
answer to this cable.
The position is very serious as a large amount of money
has been expended in the formation registration and issue of the Com¬
pany and we must hold you liable for the loss which has been incurred.
If you have not replied to our cable and fully written to us on the
subject before you receive this letter we must request you to do so
forthwith.
We would strongly recommend you to send over an accredited
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presentative to confer with us before proceedings are taken.
Yours Lruly
(sjjd) Collette & Collette
Solicitors for the Edison Phonographic Toy Coy Limit
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, Boston August 1890
Collette & Collette,
Solicitors for The Edison 1'hono'jraphic Toy and Automaton
Gentlemen: -
2 Victoria Mansions,
Victoria Street, S. W.
London, England.
We have to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated August
2nd.
We note therein that you give the name of your Company as
The Edison Phonographic Toy Coy. Ltd. The advertisement concerning
which we wrote you on the 7th. inst makes the name, The Edison Phono¬
graphic Toy and Automaton Company Limited. The difference is impor¬
tant.
We also note that your confirmation of your cable to us
of 51st ult, does not correspond with what we received. Our cable¬
gram reads
“Two injunctions against Company Gouraud and Stereoscopic
Company issue stopped Company hold you liable"
Your letter prefixes the word "Notice" to the above and
differs in one or two minor particulars.
We hardly understand why, while you were sending- us notice
of an intention to hold us liable for the failure of your prospectus
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Collette & Collette (2)
you did not accompany your letter with o. copy of the prospectus .itself'
but ^presume you had reasons satisfactory to yourself.
We have nothing to add to our letter of 7th inst further
than to say that this Company has never given any v/arranty of title
of or held out any representations as to the extent of its own or of
Mr. Edison’s rights. Both you and Mr. Yromons had access to the
documents showing extent of our rights. Information of extent of
Mr. Edison’s rights was as open to you as to anybody. We do not by
any means admit any infirmity in either but if there had been, you
could easily have discovered the same, by a reasonable degree of pru¬
dence in investigation. In viev/ of all this any talk about holding
this Company liable is useless and ill timed.
We beg to re-iterate and confirm our letter to you of
August 7th.
We have received the following characteristic cablegram
from Mr. Yeomans:
“My assurance strictly correct prospectus not exces¬
sive dont shirk. «
Yours very truly,
Secretary.
relation to matter of the English Toy Phonograph Company prospectus
I submitted the copy of the advertised prospeatus. I have not
received a copy of the detailed prospectus which the advertisement
stated could be obtained by applying to the office.
Yours very truly.
lOIMOGEAPHIC DICTATION.
[ENCLOSURE]
Aug.
Samuel Insull Esq.,
16 Broad St. City.
Dear Sir
Re Toy Phonograph Company .
Yfe beg to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the
11th inst. enclosing copy of an advertisement issued by the Edison
Phonographic Toy and Automaton Company, Limited, in London, on
Saturday July 26, 1890, and we note your request, to com? are this
advertisement with Mr. Edison’s contract with the Edison Phonograph
Toy Manufacturing Company of August 6th, 1889, and with the Edison
United Phonograph Company of March 11th, 1890, and see in what
way the advertisement in question infringes the right of the
latter Company .
We have examined the contracts in question, and find
that under them the Edison Phonograph Toy Mfg. acquired
the rigit to Mr. Edison's inventions - in or in relation to Phono¬
graphs or Speaking Machines so far only as applicable for and
in such a form as only to be adapted for use in or in association
with dolls or toy figures as a part thereof for the amusement of
children, " . . : . .. .. - .. .......
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their use in or for any other purpose " useful in business or
commercial transactions or in the arts and sciences, or ibr any
useful purpose other than for the amusement of children,* being
expressly excluded.
We find that the rights acquired by the Edison United
Phonograph Company upon his inventions relating to Phonographs or
Speaking Machines, do not include the right to use any o f the said
inventions "in or in connection with dolls, toys, toy figures and
clocks."
Looking at the Prospectus of the Edison Phonographic
Toy and Automaton Company, Limited, we find the statement that the
Company has been fonndd to acquire the exclusive rights in fe q
Phonograph patents "as applied to toys, dolls and auotmatic
figures o f every description.*
If the words underlined are regarded as simply an ampli¬
fication of the words "toys" or "dolls", then the statement is not
objectionable , and if this statement was the only one in the
Prospectus about which a question arose, we should consider that
it was intended to mean, and did in fact import different forms
of toys and dolls; but even if the phrase be given a broader mean¬
ing than here suggested, the broadest possible meaning, wo still
see no such objection to the statement, as it appears in the Pros¬
pectus, to justify hostile action against the proposed enterprise
by the Edison United Phonograph Company, Thes tatement is, that
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th» Company hau been f owned to acquire rights of a certain char¬
acter. Yfe do not see how it is possible for any one to dispute
that fact. It may bo the intention of the nev/ Company to acquire
rights of that character, no matter who they are owned by now.
The next quostioable statement appears to be the follow¬
ing : " The Phonographic Apparatus is capable of a groat variety
of adaptations to toys generally, and to Speaking Automata for
use in Bar Rooms, Restaurants, Cigar Shops, and Show Boons of
all kinds, to call the atteiftioh of customers to part j ax lar artic-
les.u We presune that this statement is true. It may have been
inserted in the Prospectus with the purpose of implying that the
rights about to bo acquired, by the Company related to Speaking
Automata for the purposes named. There is no necessary implication
howovter, that it was the intention of the Company to purchase the
rights to the Phonogreph for those -purposes- It stands in the
Prospectus as a -statement of fact, and if true, we do not see how
legal objactaton can be tjisnte it; so with the next -statement to
wit : ■ The fieltd for advertising by means of Automatic Talking
Pi gtzoee is practically limitless.11
The a«*®8age of the prospectus throughout is p eyhaps
misleading in that it dees -not espressly limit the rights which it
expects to acquire fron the Pflison Phonograph Toy Hfg. Company, to
Phonographs so far only as applicable for and in hueh a fefth ohly
as to be adapted for use ift, *>*• in ¥l¥Vi b* Voir
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fibres for j£g_ amusement of children ; and in3ofaJ. furthePf a3
it contains -language intimating that it expects to acquire or
has acquired rights to Speaking Automata for use in Bar Rooms,
*••**“*“•• 0lK"' «» *»»' *»». or « ««. t„
the attention or customers to pnrtlo.ilai- artidlo.. It t s, mono-
over, mi.leadins t,»t lt tha, contracts hnvo
boon .toi into „i,h the Edison Ph„„o,~aph Ios, Ute. to,nny
or Boaton, a. one or the parties, .here.. unam-.tena th.
to be, that no snob contr.ot hae been enterod into, nnl.ee it
by yeoman, purporting aot .a an aBe„t or that Cbmp.ny,
At th. time, « cannot pereeiv. any loml sronna
upon »hioh the Edi.on United Phonograph Company can complain of
th. Project ua in cue.tion, „„
od etatute, .rr.otin,. th. brineing .at of Companies in Rutland
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eumstanc ed lihe m„, „„lted rhMr,^h ^ ^
thinh hoaever, ,h„ .„ch . piavielon or
Yours truly,
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PRIVATE ■
CONFIRMATION OF MESSAGE. # V*
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NOTH -This confirmation should be checked "
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tmmedlnicly^oii receipt. It v
e of Person Sending.
. -Maguire. .
e of Person Reel
. Bundle. .
Sept. 11,1890. . i
From whom received: A Q Tate
To whom sent:
Samuel Insull.
Mr. Tate, has received the following telegram from Daniel wWL/
Secretary, Edison Pgonograph Toy Manufacturing Company, of Boston:-
" Directors meeting Friday 2 o'clock. Yeoman?. s here
— and he means business. Inform Insull." ^
Mr. Tate is going/to Boston to-night.
Reply.
Rundle. j/ Miller. 9.40. Sept. 11/90.
You will find me in my office all day to-morrow. V)
EQUITABLE BUILDING)
?/,,■>£ 8ep* 15,1890
<¥k,
Dear Sir I-
■ffa beg to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the
13th inet. enclosing copies of letters addressed by Mr. Edison
in his own capacity, and as President of the Edison Phonograph
Works, to the EdiBon Phonograph Toy Manufacturing Company, and
requesting our opinion on the questions set forth in your letter.
Will you be kind enough to forward to us the reply
received by you to the telegram of July 85th, as it is necesaary .
for us to know whether in reply to that telegram you received a
recognition by the Boston Company, of the transfer of your manufact¬
uring rights to the Edison Phonograph Works. If you will forward
to us the reply received by you, we can then determine the whole
question.
A. 0. Tate Esq.,
X A. Edison Esq.,
Orange, N.J.
/>/,••*« /Vy
V(/.yuq
.-4'cw ?J#r/C Sept 19, 1890.
A. 0. Tate Esq.,
X Thomas A. Edison Esq.,
Orange, N.J.
Dear Sir
Re Phonograph Toy Mfg. Company.
Referring again to your letter of the 13th inst. in which
after laying before me certain correspondence between Mr. Edison
and the Boston Company, you request our views as to the propriety
of two letters, one of which has been addressed to the Boston
Company by Mr. Edison, personally, and the other by the Edison
Phonograph Works/ We beg to reply as follows : There is no
question in our /mind tLt both Mr. Edison and the Edison Phonograph
Works have the rigit/to withdraw the offer contained in the tel¬
egram of July 25th/l890, if its provisions have not been agreed
upon within a reasonable time, and it seems to us that a reasonable
time should be such a time as would enable in due course of md 1,
the stock and the cash to be transmitted from Lonfcn to Boston. The
only circumstance which renders this view at all doubtful, is the
suggestion at the close of the telegram, that the transfer of
A.O.T.2.
manufacturing rights by Mr. Edison to the Phorr graph Works, should
be recognized by the Boston Company as a condition of the consent
contained in the earlier part of the telegram, but the difficulty
arising from that language is removed by the fact that the Boston
Company has taken no notion since the telegram was received to
recognize the transfer from Mr. Edison to the Edison Phonograph
Works. We, therefore, advise that the two letters; prepared by you
to be addressed to the Boston Company by Mr . Edison and the Edi8on
Phonograph Work a respectively, are proper. We therefore, re-en-
close them to you herewith together with the other correspondence
received from you.
Yours truly, /^)
OFFICE OF
THE EDISON PHONOGRAPH
TOY MFG, 00, TELEPHONE 161 -21st.
I'10' 138 FIFTH /VENUE,
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TO THE STOCKHOLDERS
EDISON PHONOGRAPH TOY MANUFACTURING CO.
I beg to solicit your proxy to vote the stock now standing in your name on tile books of the
Company at the annual meeting of stockholders to be hold at Portland, Maine, on 14th instant.
I seek this authority for the purpose of effecting a reorganization of the Company’s business. I am
satisfied, and I believe that a great majority if not all other stockholders will agree with me, that the
proper and only way to relieve the present depression and secure returns for money invested is to
inaugurate a practical commercial system for the sale of speaking dolls to the trade both in this
country and in Europe ! that all attempts to dispose of “ rights " should be abandoned and that all
energy should be concentrated in an effort to build up a legitimate business by the actual sale of the
product which the Company was organized to place upon the market.
It is not my intention to reflect in the slightest degree upon the integrity of the gentlemen who in
the past have had charge of the Company’s affairs. The difference existing between us is purely one of
policy. I believe that the present condition of the Company’s business proves that an entirely new
method must be adopted to ensure success ; that new life must be infused before any hope of reward
can be entertained, and it is to secure the opportunity of infusing new life and adopting new methods
that I now seek your proxy, which I shall use only for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors
who are in sympathy with my views.
Should I be honored by the confidence of a sufficient number of stockholders to enable me to ma¬
ture plans formed only with the interests of the Company in view, arrangements can be made to pro¬
vide funds immediately for the commencement of actual business.
Mr. A. O. Tate, whose name appears on the inclosed blank form of proxy, is my Private Secretary,
and one of the present Directors of the Company.
Please sign the within form, have it witnessed and re-mail the same
in envelope sent you herewith.
J?dIsorj*^>,)<,n°fipapH Toy ]V(ar}fg. ^ogjpaijy.
V OFFICE OF THE TREASURER v
95 MILK STREET, - - Room 73.
' <y/ Boston, . Bet. . 6.th, . . . 1 89O
JJJ90
Thomas A. Edison, Esq. ,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
We enclose proposed documents relating to the
Yeomans matter. These follow as exactly as possible in the changed
condition of affairs those drav/n last summer by your Counsel Mr. Lewis
with one or two minor modifications suggested by Mr. Hutchinson.
You will naturally want to submit them to Mr. Lewis. We would
suggest that this be done at once, as Mr, Yeomans is anxious to sail
this week, and if he is to go on with the work this Fall it is for
the interest of all parties to have him get away as soon as possible.
In relation to the proposed license to be given in escrow
to Trustee, we thought best to follow closely Mr. Lewis’s form, but
would suggest that you take a look at your letter written is April
17th, 1890, and especially the last two paragraphs, as a basis of a
hint to him to consider whether the points there suggested have been
sufficiently covered.
Yours very truly,
CL* t&ZXuL.
Secretary
"Opljopograpl} Toy ]V^apiy. ^oippapy.
••• OFFICE OF THE TREASURER •••
95 MILK STREET, - - Room 73.
Boston, . Oct. 6th, . . 1890
Thomas A. Edison, Esq. ,
C ■ C ■ <n h
Orange, N. J. u ^ '
Dear Sir; -
A letter from yourself individually and one from
you as president of the Edison Phonograph Works, each dated Sept. 22nd
1890, withdrawing assent to sale of rights in certain European count¬
ries, duly received, have not been replied to because negotiations
in relation to the subject matter, taken up immediately seemed to
make a reply unnecessary at least for the present. We may take
occasion to answer them at a later date.
• Referring to your report on the condition of manufacture
dated May 9th, but received by us some time later than that, we have,
as you know, had our Mr. Magovern, go over the whole ground very care¬
fully, and he has rendered us his report/ a copy of which we enclose
herewith, with Appendix, and his letter of Sept.. 7th 189Q, showing
cost of mechanisms .97 cents.
We also enclose as bearing on the same subject, letters
written by our oounsels Mr. Hutchinson of May 31st 1890 and Mr, Brown
T. A. E. (2) Oct. g^go
of May 6th 1890, and our General Manager Mr. Aiblien.&ept. lith 1890.
Mr. Allien has made himself familiar with the whole subject
and^ perhaps be of service to you in the way of explaining details..
He or Mr. Magovern will be glad to furnish you with any information.
Yours very truly,
Secretary.
Message just received over the telephone from Mr. Tate:
BOSTON, Mass. 4 : 50 p. m.
I can elect with absolutely no opposition the following
Board: Edison, Insull, Tate, Bordfeldt, or his representative,
Stevens, Mackintosh, and Richmond, who is a business partner of
Mackintosh. This gives us a majority with Bordfeldt, in addition
to which the last three are in hearty sympathy with us. A meeting
has been called for to-morrow to decline to extend Yeomans' con¬
tract beyond November 1st, the date already conceded* I shall
have to attend to-morrow's meeting. Is all this satisfactory.?:
^ “ - 4 - V- ,sp
Mr. Tate wants me t o telephone him an answer right away*
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MEMORANDUM.
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P'ttHT (tlWH’.K fS<J>»TAUH,
• trfrj/r//, October 24th»189Q*
Tjiomas A. Edison Esq.,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir :
Replying to yours of 2ist. instant I beg to say that at
the time it was being written a majority of our Executive Committee
were in New York in consultation with Mr. Borgfeldt, who stated his
ideas in full and notes of the same were made in writing and acceded
to by him as expressing a synopsis of his views. It seems to me that
the matter should be considered by the full board of directors, as
soon as possible, and I have accordingly ordered a meeting called for
next Monday afternoon at two o’clock.
I will not now go into the details of the negotiations
with Mr. Borgfeldt further than to say that a comparison of views has
produced such results as seem to me to render unnecessary any division
or differences as to the make up of the next board of directors.
I defer reply to other points until after the meeting,
except that I feel constrained to say that it seems to me erroneous to
say that the majority of the board of directors has decided that the
wishes of the stockholders would not be carried out by the election of
the gentlemen whose names were submitted by you. No majority of the
board has undertaken to lave or express any opinion on that point
whatever may have been said informally by anybody aS an individual or
a stockholder.
-Yours very respectfully.
TO THE STOCKHOLDERS'-
EDISON. PHONOGRAPH TOY MANUFACTURING CO.
annual meeting of stockholders to be held at Portland. Maine, on Thursday, 30th
Company are in a condition which demands the serious and earnes
ivelfare and I seek your authority to effect a reorganization of its but _
e Company contains but a comparatively small cash balance, almost its entire
rested in doll parts (heads, legs and arms), and old-style dolls. The un-
of
while the debt whit
Thousand Dollars.
the Con
and shares, can only be
;old for cash a
c called upon to liqi
exchanged fc
. n the Company’s merchandise has been unavailing ; the attempt to
capitalize a portion of the foreign business and obtain funds from that source has likewise proved
unsuccessful • if is therefore only by the intervention of some of those in interest. that business can be
unsuccessful ;
continued.
I am satisfied, and I believe that the majority of
proper and only tvay to secure returns 'for monev invei
.system for the sale of speaking dolls to the trade in thi
attempts to dispose of “ rights " should be abandoned and
effort to build up a substantial business by the actual si
organized to place upon the market.
It is not my intention to cast the slightest unfavorable reflection upon the gentlemen who have in
te past tad charge of the Company's affairs. We differ only upon a question of policy. I believe lhat
the present condition of the Company’s business proves that new methods must be adopted to ensure
success ; that new life must be infused before any hope of reward can be entertained and it is to secure
the opportunity of infusing new life and adopting new methods that I now seek your proxy, which I
shall use only for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors in sympathy with my views.
Should I be honored by the confidence of a sufficient number of stockholders to enable me tn
he stockholders will agree with me, that the
ted is to inaugurate a practical commercial
i country and throughout the world ; that all
that all energy should be concentrated in an
!e of the product which the Company was
n be provide
Please dal
'f stockholders tt
r with the Company’s best interests in view I contidently believe that
ly, and without sacrifice, for the commencement of actual business,
le within form, have it witnessed and re-mail the same in envelope sei
Copy.
9 Whereas, Mr. George Borgfeldt, in behalf of the firm of
George Borgfeldt & Co., of New York City, has made a proposition to
the Executive Committee, looking to the making of said firm sole
selling Agents for this Company, a written memorandum of which propo¬
sition was taken when the same was made such memorandum having been
approved by Mr. Borgfeldt at the time, and
Whereas said proposition comprehends the advanoe by said
firm of funds sufficient to enable the Company to proceed at once to
the manufacture of dolls for the supply of the market, and
Whereas, it is the sense of this Board that an arrangement
should be made with said firm on the general lines laid down by Me.
Borgfeldt as shown bj* said memorandum but with some modifications
of detail,
Now it is
Voted; that the matter of an arrangement with the firm of
George Borgfeldt & Co., in relation to said firms becoming the
selling Agents of this Company, be left to the Executive Committee
or a majority thereof, with full powers.
Voted that the Secretary be instructed to send a copy of
the foregoing preamble and vote to Mr. Tate for Mr. Edison and to
Mr. Borgfeldt. u
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The above is a true copy of a preamble and votes
passed by the Board of Directors of the Edison Phonograph Toy Mfg.Co.,
at a meeting duly called and held on the 27th. day of October 1890.
Attest,
CL •
Secretary.
Whereas this Board has been informed that one of its
members, Mr. Tate, has given directions that no more dolls be ship¬
ped to this Company from Grange, until further notioe from him, and
Whereas this Board was considering the question whether
it was not advisable to sell such manufactured dolls as it has on
hand at Orange, and by such means to raise funds to liquidate its
indebtedness to Mr. Edison: such dolls on hand being more than suf¬
ficient for that purpose:
Now it is
Resolved: that the action of Mr. Tate, as set forth
in the foregoing preamble, whether taken as a member of this Board,
or otherwise, is in the opinion of this Board ill-advised, injudicious
and unwarranted and this Board hereby records its protest against the
same: and the Secretary is directed to send to Mr. Tate a copy of
this preamble and resolution.
The above is a true copy of a preamble, and resolution
passed by the Board of Directors of the Edison Phonograph Toy Mfg. Co.
at a meeting duly called and held on the 27th, day of October, 1890.
Attest.
Secretary.
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NOTICE.
The Stockholders’ Annual Meeting was
adjourned from 16th to 30th inst.
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that may have been given, as the latest
EATON & LEWIS
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Thomas A. Eaison,
near Sir:
Re Attached Property of E.P.T.M'f’g. Co. We beg to
call your attention to the following matters:
(I) It would be well for the Works to notify the
Boston Co. of the attachment. In fact, it is almost the duty of
the Works to do so .
(2) Do you wish to have the attached property sold
on the ground that it is perishable and expensive to keep it up?
Possibly the Court ccMld bo convinced that the property is perish¬
able and would order a sale made for the benefit of th9 creditors
in due time. Shall we do this? The attachment will bo ad- C
vertised in the Newark newspapers so as to give other creditors a
chance to come in, if there are any, and they wish to do so, but
we believe there is no mention in the advert is e-nent of the names
of applying creditors. After the period named in the advor tise-
ment has expired, two or three months, the Court makes a report of
the amount due, to the plaintiff and to the applying creditors,
which report is filed. Judgment is then entered on the report
T^y ^onjpaijy.
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*.* OFFICE OF T
95 MILK STREET,
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; Room 73.
Boston, . Nov. 19th, . 189 0
Edison Phonograph Works,
Thomas A. Edison, President,
Orange, N. J.
Gentlemen: -
Referring to your favor of 17th. inst. signed
by T. A. Edison, President, we beg to treat it as if your letter of
14th. inst. signed by Samuel Insull, Treasurer, had not been received.
It seems to us, that the amount which you have claimed,
is not justly your due. We should be glad to confer with any re¬
presentative of yourselves,
• Mr. Edison, or both in relation to the
matter at such time and place, as may be fixed || iri vou . and endeavor
to come to an agreement upon the subject, or if this does not meet
your views, or if & agreement cannot be reached after such conference
v/e are ready to submit the question to arbitrators as is contemplated
by our manufacturing agreement with life-. Edison dated August 6th. 1889,
and upon decision duly rendered by such arbitrators, we expect to
settle for such amount if any, as may thus be found to be due from us.
Yours very truly,
Edison Phonograph Toy Manufacturing Co. ,
President.
[ATTACHMENT]
Hov. 22, 1890.
Edison Phonograph Toy Manufacturing Co.,
95 Milk Street, Bofcton, Mass.
Gentlemen
‘‘--X
V/e beg to acknowledge the receipt of your two favors of
the 19th inst., one addressed to our President and the otherto
our Treasurer.
In reply we beg to say that the claim uponwhid
attachment was issued was not a disputed claim. That claim was
not susceptible of dispute and had not in fact ever been disputed.
It was an amount past due for merchandise furnished under our
contract.
We still have claims under that contract against you upon
which we have not as yet taken action. Some months ago while we
were engaged in the process of manufacturing mechanisms for you
under our contract you requested a suspension of our work. That
suspension which we acquiesced in for the time, left us in possession
of certain conpleted mechanisms under the old model and of certain
mechanisms in various stages of construction under the same modeL.
It also left us in possession of tools especially made
production of the mechanisms in^sti^^ fe^l
addressed to you under date of the 17th inst. was written to you
for th
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[ATTACHMENT]
2
upon the assumption that the negations between us must necessar¬
ily fail to bring us to the same mind upon these subjects of
difference, and the purpose of that letter we desire to make more
manifest in this, which is, that we now desire to place ourselves
in the position which we held before we acquiesced in your request
for the suspension of work.
We, therefore, notify you as follows : We have on hand
a number of completed mechanisms of the old standard whi ch
we hereby deliver and tender to you under our contract. We shall
hold them to your order, and send you invoices as per our course
of dealing.
As to in completed mechanisms now in process of construc¬
tion as well as our loss upon tools especially made for that pur¬
pose and other matters outstanding between us and not referred to
herein, we are willing to follow the suggestion of your letter and
make them the subject of arbitration. We shall do this, however,
only upon condition that at the time of the .submission to arbitra¬
tion you shall give us security for the faithful performance of
aich award as may be made. If you accept this suggestion, please
communicate your acceptance at an early date. If you are not
willing to accept thia rnggastion, then „o shall be obliged to
«a„4 open our contract right, a, to the., subject. ,e „u l0
[ATTACHMENT]
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all others. Hoping to hear from you promptly, we beg to remain
Yours very truly,
ESTABLISHED IN I860.
IJJltliliJilllii,
C . November 25, 1890.
Thomas A. Edison Esq., 'l. £
Orange, N. J. < ^ O
Dear Sir,- On behalf of a client who holds some Edison Phonograph
Toy Manufacturing Co.’s stock, will you kindly furnish us with such
information as you can give in reference to the present prospect of
the Companys increasing their business, and whether the doll is now
perfected, and whether you anticipate any^ sales for the Holiday mar¬
ket. Your early reply Will be treated in confidence and will greatly
oblige us.
Dictated G. A. L.
Toy ]V(WS. ^onqpapy.
OFFICE OF THE TREASURER ••■
95 MILK STREET, - - Room 73.
Boston, . Nov. ...28th, . j S9 0
Edison Phonograph Works,
f d )
Orange, N. J.
Gentlemen:
Replying to your favor of the 22nd. inst., we
beg to say that until we know just what the claim is on which you
have undertaken to attach our property, and also just what part of
our property you claim to have under attachment, we are quite unable
to discuss the matter in hand with any intelligence. It seems to
us only fair, also to acquaint us with other facts in regard to your
suit, such as, Court in which it is brought, the return day of writ
etc. , inasmuch as we have no information on these particulars from
any other source.
We have supposed that your claim was not only sue-
ceptible of, but actually in dispute and must continue to think so
until the contrary is in some way made to appear.
Your letter does not pake clear whether such completed
mechanisms as you claim to hold subject to our order are enclosed
in dolls or how many there are. We should be glad to be enlightened
on these points.
JJcHson^lioqoflraplt Joy JV^apfg. gon)par,y.
'•' OFFICE OF THE TREASURER ...
95 MILK STREET, - . Room 73.
E. P. Works,
Boston, . Nov. 26th, . 189 0
(2)
We should be glad to confer with your representative
and with Mr. Edison, or his representative on the whole subject.
If this is not acceptable to you we are ready to carry out our manu¬
facturing contracts according to its terms, including the provisions
for arbitration.
As to the suspension of your work as you claim at our
request, we beg to say that our understanding is that such suspension
took place before any request of ours had been made.
And we are
Yours respectfully,
Edison Phonograph Toy Manufacturing Co ,
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ESTABLISHED IN I860.
L’G Devon sltim; Sli-ool.
. . . . December 3, 1890,
Thomas A. Edison Esq. ,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir,- Your favor of Nov. 26th is received, and we wish to thank
you for your explanation of the affairs of the Company. On the be-
hali of our client, we wish your permission to publish your letter in
full in the Boston Advertiser. Our client believes you perfectly
right in taking the position you do in the matter, and thinks that if
this letter was given to the public it would .open the eyes of a good
many of the stockholders who are in ignorance of the present condition
of the Company. Awaiting your reply, we wish to remain,
Yours truly.
r' ' y$rs ctC&r-'
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'Stcw'&rd. Dec. 10, 1890.
A. 0. Tate Esq.,
Edison laboratory,
Orange, N.J.
Dear Sir
We beg to acknowledge the/receipt of your favor of the
8th inst. spying that you will mak / a report to us in reference
to the Toy Phonograph manufacture/, and suggesting that afte:
! receive the same we make a appointment with Mr. Batchelor to
jive us such additional infornj4tion as his memory maybe dil e
to supply. /
Awaiting the receipt of your report., we beg to remain
Yoytirs truly, /'<1
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[TO DAVID M. YEOMANS?]
COPY.
To Flange,
London.
Transfers free of Edison's rights will be made upon receipt of
money as per your cable of sixteenth instant together with stock
of proper agreement for delivery thereof.
Cop y'«
You are hereby authorized to sell all rights for Great
Britain, Continental 'Europe and the Channel Islands, free of
royalties under license agreement dated:-. . and of rights
accruing under manufacturing contract with me of same date
provided such sale he effected for not less than^lOO, 000 'sterling
cash, less commissions and expenses, and one eighth of the capital
stock of a corporation capitalized at not more than^300,000 ster¬
ling, and upon such sale being made I will make and secure formal
assent to appropriate transfers made by you.
Assented to-
lawful:
1890. Sims-Edison Electric Torpedo Company (D-90-61)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents pertaining to
the business of the Sims-Edison Electric Torpedo Co. Included are
documents about the demonstration of the company’s electric torpedo boat
and Edison’s opinion of the boat. Most of the letters are by Everett Frazar,
president of the company.
Approximately 40 percent of the documents have been filmed. The
following categories of documents have not been filmed: meeting
announcements; routine correspondence about stock transactions.
^if% ||.i1 limn ||lei]|:iji:c fjjp0r$reik '^tntt{ptug»
124 Water Street,
(f/«,
Y
i’eb, loth, l;.0O,
Thos. A. Edison Esq.,
Trustee Sims-Edison Elec. Torpedo Co.
The Laboratory, Oran g e.
Dear Sir:
I take pleasure in handing you herein the following documents
which have been prepared by Mr. W. Scott Sims, General Manager, and
myself, by request of the new board of directors at their first
meeting, held at noon on the eleventh day of February, viz.:
A. - Sims-Edison Electric Torpedo Co', in a/o with W. Scott Sims.
for amounts paid by him and due by the Company for patterns,
moulds, tools, cable &e., per vouchers, f-2755.90
B. - Sims-Edison Electric Torpedo Oo'. in a/o with W. Scott
She »rST 1ST’ ”“e by hi”• from “•
1624.35
simT’alBOn El00tri0 Torpedo ho. in e/c with w. Scott
Simsior amount of outstanding accounts due by the
Coup any and appro vod by the General Manager, 1670. 4B
Showing total indebtedness on Feli'y ll, 1890 . Sfi 050.79
Statement of assets of the Sims-Edison Electric Torpedo Co. ( with
note re. patents, contracts pending &0. &c.) showing value of
assets on Pob'y 11, 1890 to be . '
* * * ••••••.. .£00*420,
X remain, dear sir.
Yours very truly.
[ATTACHMENT]
A
©85 BIMB-TOIPOTJ J5M50TRK! TORPEDO C0HFAIi7
In a/o with W. Scot i, Sinn,
afi par vnuohorn.
!5r.
laa-.i .
July 27 To amount paid for pat, toms, . $595.00
do. Iron moulds, £77 ,(><•;
do. Tools &<),, 512.06
do. 0 shift, 0,000 ft., 770-.
$ 2,7 55, 0(>
Ho to:
Above used in construction of now improved
22 mile spend torpedo boat, (stored it; Edison
Machine Vfttrko) as per bills rendered by 75. MV
■Works July 27 th, 18£,9 , and paid by W. Scott Sims
Jan. 25 th, 1690.
Now York, Fob. 11th, 1890.
[ATTACHMENT]
T)03 RIKS-KDISOH
RT.KCTHIO TOHPKDO CO.
In account, with V7. Scott Sinn,
aa per Vouchors.
Sept. 21
lBSS .
Doc. 17
April 2
Doc. 81
81
1GS6.
May is
.Tuna 19
July
Aug,
li.t;7
May
88
To paid (!iw C-uliok,
" do..
" 1 ■ do.
" J. Dcgorton,
M Hull S: Todd,
" ('.• Bencke-,
" Am. Photo. Co.,
■ Hesns,
* Fr. D. Chandler,
* P. T. P. Allon,
0 M. v. Smith,
" Mow York Knit inn Co.,
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* Rubber Printer,
“ 33. (?. Soltmrn,
0 Rout &c.,
“ ExpenaoB in Rdlson Laboratory
18KB to liiiip,
* KxpnnuKR t.o Washington,
To paid patent foes to,-
J. P. Pitch,
do-,
do-,
do.
i-.ao
4-. 25
a. so
2.
a. 75
100.,
250.,
400.
Haw York, Pah. 11th, 1890.
[ATTACHMENT]
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STATEMENT OP OUTSTANDING ACCOUNTS DUE BY THE SIMS -EDI SON ELECTRIC
TORPEDO CO,,
APPROVED BY W. SCOTT SIMS,
GENERAL MANAGER,
as per vouchers.
Dr,
1555.
May 1 To
paid Thor,. A.- Edison,
$32.03
1
" do-.
22.99
23
" do.
28,77
1559
April23
" A. 0. Day,
1,39
June 1
" Pierce & Jones, balance
Due Feb. 17' 90.
(note
74-.
Feb. 1
" Bishop -S. P. Co.,
28,
June 13
" Hein Co., nett,
55-. ( Orig. #105. 60)
July 10
* Bergmann & Co,,
101-.55
Nov-. 13
" Electric Reviews,
23.75
Doc-. 31
" Fullerton <5: Rushmorenote
452, Due May 23,'90.
Dec.
and
J an.
" W. S.- S. expense a/c
231.
Dec-.
11 do-. salary a/c,
250.
Jen.
11 do. salary a/o
250.
Jan-, 31
" % N, Deen,
81-.
Feb. 5
* Storage on boat,
39.
B, E, ,
New York, Feb, 11th, 1590.
Note: accounts,
A *2,755,90
R 1,624.35
0 1,670-. 45
[56,050,79
[ATTACHMENT]
OP , SIM (5 -ISP Ip on electric torpedo oompany,
How York, February 11th, 1890.
One
Ona
Cubic
1 mila boat (lo 1/2 miles UI,oed)
witii moulds, patterns &o,
old boat copper &C., valued at,
6.000 ft. ( and oxponses incurred)
loaned W. S. s, for now boat,
940 sharos of Treasury stock at $50,
Books, Pamphlets, Real &c.,
Total assets,
* Indebtedness,
Note;
P'lUmts, America and Europe.
' Contracts with ,T. v. p. Read for Europe,
Contract pendin/j with U. S, Gov't for
4 boats at 12,500, $50,000,
prospective profit, 30,000,
Pen dinC, appropriation in Congress for
\ 40 or more boats.
$5,000.
5no.
150-.
?53,420,
,
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‘-'/-I'HrO/
General Manager,
j^-lftlisim ||l«|fi(ic torpedo ^oinjiaitg.
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d.24 Water Street, w. scott sims, g«
(fre-lJ April 30th, 1890.
ShoB# A. Edison Esq«,
Orange,
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Dear Sirs
Several of .the South Amerioan delegates now in this country,
having accepted the invitation of the officers of the Sims-Edison
Electric Torpedo Oo. to witness an exhibition of the working of
their latest torpedo boat, the Government steaner, "Chester A.
Arthur," has been placed at their disposal by the Hon. Secretary
of War, She will leave pier 3, E. R., on Friday, May 2nd, at 12 m.
for Willetts Point, Long Island; and you or your representative
are invited to accompany the officers and delegates on tills trip.
Please make acknowledgement and acceptance of this invitation.
Yours very truly.
PRESIDENT SIMS-EDISON
ELECTRIC TORPEDO COMPAN"
GARDINER C. SIMS, 2d
124 Water Street,
..z* (?/*>/ July 10th, li,90.
Thos. A, Edison Esq.,
Or a n g e0
Dear Sir:
The officers, of th® Sims-Edison Electric Torpedo Co. v/ill bo
pleased to have you witness an exhibit of tho working of the Siios-
Ertison Electric Torpedo boat , in charge of Mr. Scott Siren, the
inventor and Gen'l Mgr. of tJiin Company, on Tuesday afternoon the
15th :innt . at 3 o'clock. The stems r “E. B. Bslsell* v/ill leave
Vhird'H pier {Ho. If. or 17) foot of Wall St. at 1:30 p.ra. Tuesday for
Willetts Point, arriving back in this city on or before 0 p.m.
I shall bo pleased to have youi' scknowleugamam. and accept¬
ance of thi« invitation, remaining,
ELECTRIC TORPEDO COMPANY.
124 Water Street,
8ept. 19th, 189 OH)
C- ' thfflnaa A. Bdlson Bag.,'
i Orange.
r Bear Sir:
£* 1 dUly r°0oiv8d your f *ror of *“*« aTth» «*«loaing a letter
R frOM Mr* w* ®* Bullen, Milwaukee, in regard to torpedoes. Owing to
my abaenee on a abort waoation reply has been delayed. I have,
C h0W9Var* ®ddreaaed him, thanking him for the auggeationa given
r aad bating that Mr. Sima will be pleased to oommunieate with him
P& in tha near *hture if he oan see an opporttmity to avail of hia aer
^ vieea.
RtRlly, PRESIDENT Suvia-DuisuH.
ELECTRIC TORPEDO COMPANY.
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1890. Telegraph - General (D-90-62)
This folder contains correspondence relating to the technical and
commercial development of the telegraph. Most of the letters are from the law
firm of Eaton & Lewis and concern the case of Welch v. Edison. There is also
a letter about quadruplex patent royalties.
Approximately 60 percent of the documents have been filmed. The
following categories of documents have not been filmed: routine
correspondence regarding the Welch case; a list of Western Union officials;
unsolicited correspondence about the Writing Telegraph Co.
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EDISON ELECTRIC LIGHT CO.
44 WALL STREET.
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A. 0. Tate, Esq,,
Edison's laboratory,
Orange, N.’ j.
Dear Sir,
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This will introduce to you Mry 0.- Do la Touanne,
to the French Government telegraphs. Mr. De la Touanne is about
to leave for Paris and I am anxious to have him see some thing of
Mr. Edison's laboratory before he goes? it is possible that he
may desire some information relative to the Railway telegraph '
system which I hope you will be able to give him. Any courtesies'""- ifl;
extended to him will be duly appreciated by,
EATON & LEWIS
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A. 0. Tate, Esq.,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir;
Re Welch vs Edison.
We are informed that this case will proVfifcfr'be urged fo*
trial in May and it is desirable for us to put in shape our defense
as soon as possible. Our Mr. lewis has Collected together the
early Stearns and Edison telegraph patents and would like a consul¬
tation with Mr. Edison at an early date*- the earlier the better.
Will you kindly let us know k£ what afternoon will be agreeable
to Mr. Edison to have Mr. lewis come to see him regarding the mat¬
ter*
Your 8 truljr,
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EATON & LEWIS
A, 0. Tate, Esq.,
Orange, N. J
Dear Sir; ^ $/ /
Re Welch vs Edison.
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Mr. Edison told me yesterday that he would have sent in
to me the bound volumes of the testimony and arguments of the tele¬
graph case tried some years ago before Judge Sandford. The title
of the case, I thinlj, was the Atlantic & pacific Telegraph Co.
against Western Union Co., or the title reversed, -I do not recol¬
lect which. Will you kindly see that these books are sent in to
me.
Yours truly,
!Jhrs(r/,/’///;r:(4/<. equitable bl
<stciu> //&?& April 1. 139,0.
.. Edison, Esq., O ^
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Thomas A,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir;
Ho Welch vs Edison.
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V/e have had a preliminary interview with Mr. D1 Infrevillo
with his testimony and expresses himself as willing to bo the ex¬
pert on your side of the case. He says that he is so busy nowadays
that he will be obliged to charge you a retainer of $250., and then
charge $75. a day for time actually occupied in the case. We think
it best, before concluding any arrangement with him, to get your
approval of these terms. It seems like a largo price to pay, but
if you wish to have D’lnfrevillo he probably cannot be had for less.
Will you kindly let us know by letter whether to retain him and al¬
so have a telephone' message sent to us to-morrow morning in regard
to the subject, as our Mr. Lewis lias an interview appointed with
him for to-morrow afternoon.
Yours truly.
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EATON & LEWIS
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A. 0. Tate, Esq.,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir;
Re Welch vs Edison.
<ylsM> 'fyt'-r/y April 7. 1890.
~y
Kindly send a check for $250. to the order of Georges
D'lnfreville as his retainer in this case, and we shall hand it to
him. This is in pursuance, as we understand, of Mr. Edison's in¬
structions to retain Mr. fi'Infreville.
Yours truly,
EATON & LEWIS
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Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir;
We beg to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of the
9th inst., enclosing check to the order of Mr. D’Infreville as re¬
tainer in the case of Welch va Edison.
Yours very truly,
-/tv/
EATON B. LEWIS
}UITABLE BUILDING )
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Thomas A. Edison Esq.,
Orange, H.J.
Dear Sir :-
Re Welch vs. Edison •
It will be necessary for you to make the enclosed affi¬
davit in order to entitle us to an order compellfe g the production
of books and papers. Will you kindly swear to this affidavit
before Mr. Ran dolph and return the same by first mail*
Yours truly, /)
>icy
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• 9-
Dear Si)1: >, /
Re Welch Case. ',Ve bee to say: I
(1) Me si’s Hale & Fiske, tlie Boston Attorneys, ask
for a "refresher" of $500. They are fairly entitled to it. If'
agreeable, will yon kindly send us a cheque drawn to their order.
(2) Thetime has now come for us to retain Col. In-
?.erS2=i* WS Sha11 need him* If agreeable, please send a cheque,
for $500^ drawn to his order.
(3) We have a letter from Messrs Hale & Fiske this
morning, saying "Hie case is liable to come up among the earliest,
not before the 21st inst., or perhaps the 28th." General Butler
is now in the West but will be back in a few days. The talk of
settlement has tnded in nothing tangible and we must now go to wort
m dead earnest and prepare for trial. Can Mr. D' Irfreville and
our Mr. Lewis have all they need of your time, possible several
days, beginning Saturday morning, the I8th inst? Please tele¬
phone us on receipt of this whether yon can give them Saturday. of
this week to begin with, at H* Infreville 1 s office here.
SZ-Cf 'b- ftk-h -a.
New York City, Oct.. 21, 1890.
Wear Mr. Edison:
'ion Mth s* “"Ta ln,° * ■llP»l-
by either party until al lL^ 0a89, cannot bebrouGht to tria
our proposed motion! I refer to our tho deeision of
to tell us what amounts of money were paid V° C°mpGl th^lai«tif
dates were, touching the invention in dispute. ^ Wh&t the
you today I shall ^ot^presen /'to .I.^e^so1^ 'vhioh I received from
above delay, x wiiiTto put o-r-r n!+ immediately in view of the
possible. PUt °ff actualJy retaining him as long a<
pel Mr. ])' Infreville to move hifinstn/lents t think Y°U might oon
'hen he and Lewis could see you there Youn !• Y™r Lab°ratory.
valuable than theirs even
Very truly yours,
:i. Mr. Lewis went to Eoston Tuesday
i Wednesday to compel Welch to tell us
you and to show us his books&c.
s called suddenly to Washington and was not
They telegraphed us on Tuesday but the
s until Wednesday morning, too late to stop
near Mr. Edison: "" Y°Pk °ity’ N°V* 7th’ I890‘
Welch v Edis
night to argue the motion <
how much money he lent
Butler wa,
in Boston on Wednesday,
message did not reach ui
Mr Lewis.
a member of l* ?rovidmoe by the death of
so the motion could not have been heard? We<to0Bto5r anyway>
sideration° PMeanUme ’ oST TheyVaye' ‘the*™ tier
a?- ”v,r
Very truly yours,
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to Boston counts up/ * th® eXp9nSe °f these Sequent trips
Very tmly yours.
1890. Telegraph - Phonoplcx (D-90-63)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents pertaining to
the Edison Phonoplex System of Telegraphy. Most of the documents relate to
the installation of phonoplex circuits on various American and Canadian
railroads. Some of the items deal with the problem of finding suitable
batteries, condensers, and other components. Much of the correspondence is
by W.S. Logue, field agent for the phonoplex system. Most of Logue’s letters
are addressed to Edison’s secretaiy, Alfred O. Tate. Tate served as the
company’s electrician and oversaw its daily business operations. Edison
himself was only tangentially involved in phonoplex operations, and very few
letters to or from him can be found in this folder.
Approximately 10 percent of the documents have been filmed. The case
study approach begun in 1887 continues for the Pennsylvania Railroad:
substantive items relating to the operations of the phonoplex on that railroad
have been selected. In addition, the following categories of documents have
been filmed: substantive items regarding sales strategies, competition with
Western Union, and Logue’s role as field agent for both the phonoplex and the
Edison Manufacturing Co.; correspondence about technical problems,
indicating substantive involvement by Arthur E. Kennelly, chief electrician at
the West Orange laboratoiy; and an advertising circular issued by the Edison
Phonoplex System.
The following categories of documents have not been filmed: most
documents dealing with phonoplex operations on other railroads; letters of
inquny from railroad companies; Logue’s accounts and personal
correspondence.
Related material can be found in D-90-01 (Battery), D-90-02 (Bergmann
& Company), and D-90-27 (Edison Manufacturing Company).
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Phonoplex System of Telegraphy
Between offices .equipped with the Phonoplex, nn additional and absolutely independent circuit
is provided, the same as thoUgh' an extra wire had been strung.
ECONOMY
SAVES THE COST OF ERECTION OF
PHONOPLEX CIRCUITS CANNOT BE
ADAPTABILITY
CIRCUITS MAY BE ARRANGED TO
SUIT EVERY REQUIREMENT AND
COMBINATIONS FORMED WHICH
CANNOT BE EFFECTED BY MEANS
OF ANY OTHER KNOWN SYSTEM
OF TELEGRAPHY /
,, ORANGE, N.J., May 27, 1890.
Dear Sjr :
Mr. Edison, during the past few months, has
greatly^improved the Phonoplex System of Telegraphy
in. a .direction which adds vastly to its usefulness, and
places it' at the head of the list of telegraphic inven¬
tions of recent years.
SIMPLICITY
THE INSTRUMENTS ARE EASILY
CONTROLLED BY ORDINARY OPERA¬
TORS.
PRACTICABILITY
THE LETTERS OF A FEW OF OUR
LICENSEES REPRODUCED IN FAC¬
SIMILE IN OUR PAMPHLET SHOW
THAT ALL OUR CLAIMS FOR THE
SYSTEM HAVEIBEEN FULLY PROVED
BY PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE.
The introduction of the system has been greatly
retarded, in the past, owing to two causes 1 First, the
short-: lifeuof the battery which we were obliged to
use to operate- the induction coils, and, Second, the
restriction of the length of Phonoplex circuits to about
one hundred miles, Both these difficulties have been
surmounted in the following manner,
BATTERY
Requiring a cell of low internal resistance, we were, at the commencement of our business, compelled
to use the well known forms of Fuller and .Bunsen, which required renewal twice or three times in each
expense attendant upon such frequent renewal, and many companies anticipating the failure of the sgstem
through the neglect of operators to replenish the cells, have delayed its adoption. We are now using the
... c ...... EDISON-LALAM15E BATTERY, =-
LENGTH OF PHONOPLEX CIRCUITS
Mr. Edison has provided new transmitting devices, by which we are enabled to operate successfully
circuits of almost any desired length.
We earnestly invite the attention of Railway Companies to a new departure, which is rendered
practicable by the adoption of this system.
Bearing in mind the facts that phonoplex circuits cannot be left open, that conditions of weather
have absolutely no effect upon the operation of the system, that it suffers no interruption from "grounds'’
or "crosses,” it is plain that a despatched v/ire equipped with Phonoplex instruments would insure constant
and never-fading communication with all offices , and prevent the delay of traffic which now frequently occurs
through the failure of the present Morse circuits.
If but one circuit is required, remove your Morse instruments ; dispense with your main and local
batteries ; substitute the phonoplex, and thereby obtain a reliable, economical means of controlling the
movement of trains. The wire over which the phonoplex operates may rest upon the ground, or may be
crossed at not only one but any number of points with other v/ires without in the slightest degree affecting
the working of the phonoplex circuit.
Dispatchers will further appreciate the fact that it is absolutely impossible for phonoplex circuits to be
left open through carelessness or otherwise. The operator works a local circuit entirely independent of the
main line, which is explained by diagram in accompanying pamphlet.
In short, barring accident through the violence of which the main line v/ire might be broken, it is
an absolute impossibility to interrupt a phonoplex circuit.
Please note carefully our special detailed reference to this class of work in accompanying pamphlet ,
the matter being too lengthy to embody in a letter.
Estimates will be cheerfully furnished upon application.
Address :
EDISON PHONOPLEX,
Orange, N. J
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Referring to your inquiry of the 2nd* inat, in
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Division 'Operator*
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1890. West Orange Laboratory (D-90-64)
This folder contains correspondence, reports, and other documents
relating to experiments and tests conducted at the West Orange laboratory.
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machine shop and laboratory, and other documents pertaining to labor costs
for experimental work.
Approximately 50 percent of the documents have been filmed. The
following categories of documents have not been filmed: routine
correspondence relating to orders, personal affairs of employees, payrolls, and
shipments; monthly meter accounts for electric lighting supplied by the
laboratory plant to the Edison Phonograph Works and various homeowners
in Llewellyn Park; reports covering water consumption at the laboratory.
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OFFICE OF
Geo. L. English & Co.,
DEALERS IN MINERALS,
1612 Ohestnut Street,
Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A. March 26t,h, l«90.
Hr. Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, N. J. ;
Dear Sir:-
Mr. Kunz informs us of the payment to him of the
balance dua on his collaction, and we tharafora, take pleasure in
enclosing herein a receipted bill for the entire amount (S8000. ).
We beg you to accept our thanks both for ourselves and in behalf
of Mr. Kunz for your promptness and courtesy to us in this trans¬
action. If we can bo of any service to you in any way at any time
wo shall bo most happy to serve you to the best of our ability.
We remain,
Very respectfully yours,
TO GEO. L. ENGLISH & CO., dr.
DEALERS IN MINERALS,
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[ENCLOSURE]
United Edison Manufacturing Company,
65 FIFTH AVENUE,
New York,....
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Thomas A Edison Esq;, .
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sirs -
This letter will introduce Commander C. F. Goodrich, of the United""
States Navy, who desires tomake a few experiments in connection with- electrolysis,
’ lias asked us if it would not be possible for:him to • avail hiim self of your
laboratory for this purpose. Commander Goodrich will letyou know more-in
detail of the nature of the ■ experiments that he desires to make.
We-beg to-add thathe-is much -interested in all -matters -pertaining
to the application of electricity, .both' for-lighting and'other purposes, -in United
States vessels and at naval stations.
•We should be glad -if ;you-conld.: arrange- to- make a. personal appointment
with Commander Goodrich.
Thanking -you ’in advance -f or . any courtesies : that. -you may -be- able, to -.ex¬
tend to - him, :we are,
’Yours very, truly,
Assistant to General Manager.'
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OOVBRJ3D m BILLS RJiin/ERUD EDISON GMiERAI, EliBCTRIC CO1.
I.I HIilIPOIiAS BY H A. 1.1 0. §
Shis experiment was originally started for
■the purpose of producing an entirely new line of
dynamos ,• of difforont construction, so us to permit
of thoar being made for half of the money which tic
present typo of clyuamo costs the I.hchino Works4,
This- was a vary difficult problem, but owing to
Croat competition it was thought to lx; absolutely
noccssary to meet the same-. The oxporiirents con¬
tinued -for a sse.aib length of tine' and were very
costly, on account of the large size of machined
which it was necessary’ to make in order to get
proper results, and the special machinery required
to make, the experiments'. The- ultimate result was
beycihd expectations,- -inasmuch as the dynamo has an
. output per pound of iron twico tliat of any other ,
known dynamo, and in addition, tho coot of construc¬
tion is less per pound than in any other dynamo. On
account of lack of facilities and a groat rush of
orders, tho type of dynamo could not be changed by
tlio I.Iachino Works’. But when the question of tlio
production of largo dynamos to bo directly connected
with triple-expans ion-engines , which is to bo th3
future method of producing light moro choaply, v/as
Carried Forward
$10,753.79
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Br ought forward $10,753.79
discussed, it v-as found that the new type of ma-
ohino was the only one that' would moot all the
conditions, and Mr'. Henderson and tho Machine Eka.
have adopted that foiw, and will use it hereafter
in all large Station work as soon as facilities
will permit; it is probable that for iaolatod work
a change in the old type could be made substituting
the now model. Of the several forms built, tho
perfected form was shipped to Schenectady for test.
From this apparatus and data given tho dosigno of
tho largo now Confml-Station-'friple-.iJxpans ion-
bynamo wero. vrsa&o.
G I I E A P D Y H A M 0.
33.00
This is a portion of the experiment on Multi¬
polar Dynamo, of which an explanation is givon above.
B A 1 A H C I 21 a BO X. S50V76
Owing to the groat competition in our snail
town bus inosc with tho V/estinghouse Electric Co.,
1 was urged by the people at -#05 Fifth Avo., and
all othors, to got up some system which would per¬
mit of covering a largo aroa at a small exponso for
wiro, so as to compote with Westingliouso. A model
of a dovice by which a five-wire system could 1x3
used, was made; the sum entered hero roprooonts tho
cost of the first box built at the Laboratory, and_ _ ;
twolve others built to rrwft-P n +.r>«+. hv f 11 • ■S'ty-'i-J-
Bi-; Forward
§11,537.5!:
Borgmann & OoV A trial vraa. mad e at tho Jkibora-
toi^y which resulted successfully. Afterwards ob¬
jections xroro made to tho effect that a five-wire
system rendered the use of too many wires necessary,
and tho people at $55 fifth Ave. wore umrilling—
although the system was a success — to enter into
competition when no inn so many wires. All tho
bo;;os are now in the Laboratory .
h Y 21 A If 0.
This experiment reprosonts a portion of the
worJ: on Multipolar Dynamo, of which an explanation
is given in the foregoing.
SCALE FOR LBTEm.UIIIHR LOCATION Of SEEKER miW .
This apparatus is invariable it is a seals
or balance by moans of which determinations can bo
made with accuracy and rapidity'. Since its com¬
pletion the apparatus has boon usod by mysolf and
my Assistant, Mr. Konnolly, in all dotorminations
made by us.
PBBSSVEE 1>s,4a.o0
This was an experiment to produce a cheaper
and more reliable Pressure Indicator, which would
bo: absolute and not liablo to get out of order; the
experiments were conducted by mo on account of tho
Carried Forward $14,207.41
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Br. Forward §14,207.41
lai'go number of complaints -'relative to pressure
indicatoiv; varying all over the country, causing
great lamp breakage and misunderstanding, she
pressure indicator tkuj . Completed and was a perfect
success. It .is at the Laboratory now. I do not
know why the Udison Go. does not adopt it.
ALTKlfllAVIHC EXEBRIiaBBT «
In view of tho danger attendant upon tho uso
of alternating cm-rento and the undesirability of
intx-oducing idiom into houses and other buildings,
X experimented at the time the Kells on Company was
contemplating . the; manufacture and sale of alter¬
nating apparatus, upon a method of convex-ting such
currents into continuous cux-ronts, the idoa being
to, altoi-nate tlxo current on the outside system and
by. moans of a convex-ter, 3ond none but continuous
cux-rents over interior systems. The apparatus
which X made is now on exhibition at the Lenox
Lyceum.
There wei-e a groat many complaints about zincs
no-5 being pux-e, meter ineorroct «c., and the wholo
matter was taken up at tlio Laboratory. An entire
change was made in tlio motor, tlio sources of error
Carried Forward §15,676.04
Ward
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vtavo eliminated and good sines wox-o obtained. This
is one of the experiments that was carried ovox- for
a Ions period to find out the sources of error in
the sines and how they could bo corrected.
A *T S F~° H M E H. 4,509.07
2o moot competition with V/ostingliouso, thoi-o
were ex-oat demands tint wc siiould m!;o a system
whereby the outlying parts of tovnir, could lx- roachod'.
It wg ts necessary to usa a continuous transformer.
A groat many experiments wore tried in tlxio con¬
nection, hut it was found tint the bosk typo vras that
of doubling one motor dynamo;. Since, however, the
great dangers in the distribution of high tension
currents by means' of induction lave boon shown , it
was co ncluded th$t the Edison Company lad better ;
not risk even the use of a continuous current t runs- "
fonnor, which is far loss dangerous than an altox--
nating, and accomplish the same resxilts by using
two motors instead of trying to combine the two in
one. There were several of tlic3e iransfomers made
of difforont types, which -.to have now at the laboratory.
fJOiffliPiE-TBiKB system-.
Shis is a subdivis ion of experiments upon my
five-wire system, the object of which 1 have ex¬
plained in the fox-egoing.
H . e m o r a n cl u n
Experiment No1. 174, Indue ti onl on Glass . ' $202*. 57*.
This v/as an experiment c (inducted by Mr, Edison for the pur-
pose of arriving at a means tel prevent the blackening of incandes¬
cent electric lamps’. Bill itl against the Edison Lamp Company..
Experiment Ho’. 28, STORAGE BATTERY — §188'. 01
Look up your pay-roll sheets and let me know vrho v/orlced on
tliisio i
Experiment Mo'. 108, THOMPSON VAGVUUM EX. - §13.56
This was an experiment condticted by Mr. Edison in connection
with exhausting lamps’. Bill it against the Lamp Co’.
Experiment No. 187, CIRCUIT BRE
Bill this against the Edison\ Electric Light Co... It was an
experiment upon a circuit breaker\f or- use in connection with
Capital Punishment
MARKET EXPERIMENT, §327.16.
Bill this against the Edison iliac hine Works'. It
poriment made in connection with tile discharge of field magnets,
to determine- the best means of protecting a dynamo from the effect
of lightning!. 1
MAGNETIC INDUCTION BALANCE. . <
This v/as an experiment made to
tion balance principle could not be
sence of iron ore1. Bill it against
ascertain whether an indue, ~
smployed to detect the pre-
ihe Ore Milling Cot.
Experiment No1. 303, RESISTANCE OP WIRES AT DIPPERENT TEMPERATURES .
R $165*. 06
This experiment is explained by Hits title, made to derive
information for use in connection with dynamos'. Bill it against
the Machine Works*. 1
May 14, 1890*.
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SAMUEL INSULL.
PLEASE ADDRESS REPLY TO
8 * 18 BROAD STREET.
A. 0. Tat e, Esq. , Private Secretary,
Edison Labratory,
Orange, N.J.
1 ear Sir; -
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I have yours of Aug. 28th, as to experimental
account of Electrical Railroad Works. These accounts should remain
in the same name they are at the present moment. As soon as the
contract is closed vaith the North American Company they will be
billed against that Company. I will advise you of the execution
of that contract.
With reference to the account against the General Company,
for otter experiments, these accounts should be got up to the first
icSi^on “ P°SSible- •^^Usin.g the Labratory
shall have to have the exact amount of the bills up to
August 1st.
Yours truly,
vise k.
Thomas A. Edison Esq.
Dear Sir
Thomas A. Edison Esq. yy J.., U— y>
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Dear Sir :- /<e, t r U % tfi , c . ^ K^J
I beg to report as follows upon the condition of somey/f^,
sample tubes of The Safety Conduit Co. sent for test to
your laboratory.
These tubes are 9> 7” long, and 1” internal , 1« ?/8 »
external diameter.
Six of these lengths were received on the 21st. ult. ,
and according to your instructions were immersed in the
fresh water tank.
Yesterday four were removed for test after 22 days
immersion. The exterior surface of these has somewhat
deteriorated, and the original gloss has disappeared.
The insulation resistance of these tubes averages
15,000 ohms each, or at the rate of 30 ohms per mile.
They have been replaced in the tank for further tests.
Yours faithfully,
(A- . C • .
Electrician .
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JOHN TREGONING, PBCTOHY OPPICE
Thomson Electric Welding Company,
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Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
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Doar Sir:- c" __ _ . .
V/e ship you herewith -one typo ID C.G. Dynamo and one typo 10
A Welder good for ah out put of 10,000 Watts, with primary E. M.
P. 300 volts, Wo include our usual instructions for operating
the plant, which, although not absolutely required, will facili-..
tate the manipulation of the same. We will add to the printed
&
instruction the . fol lowing: reactive coil, type 2 C.C. is the one
to be connected to terminals of switch board, while type 10 E.E.
is to be used in series with the welder. The latter has two ad¬
justments, one operating a s.vitch in base of t he coil carpi ing the
windings either in series, multiple or series multiple as indica¬
ted by tiro marks j // jj|j on index, Reactive coils first men¬
tioned adjust the amount of over compounding which is set for 10
per cent, , on full load; the secondary is firmly looked by a
notch on the curved iron rod; in moving the secondary (copper-
shield) so as- to cover the primary less compounding effect is ob¬
tained, more if moved in the opposite direction.
The dynamo when leaving the factory is so adjusted that han¬
dle P will stan^vertical for non sparking position, Flexible
ajs.
connections to binding posts nro to cross each othor- in 'front of
bearing. It will be well to ground the frame of welder as; well
as base of reactive coil to nearest water pipe. Speed machine is
loOO revolutions; size of puley, 12 inches by 10 1-2 face. Any
other information required, v/ill gladly be given,
Truly yams,
Thomson Electric Welding Oo.
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EDISON GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
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16 & 18 BROAD STREET.
September 18th, 1890
A. 0. Tate Esq., Private Secretary,
Edison Laboratory,
Orange, N.J.
Dear sir:-
I have yours of the,'16th, with reference to the
precautions which you are now takirjg/to prevent unauthorized per¬
sons from getting into the Laboratory.
I trust that the Gate House will prevent some of the
trouble which you have had in the past.
Yours truly,
Second Vice President ,
The following memorandum was dictated yesterday by
Ur. llolzer, who is particularly anxious to hear from you on the
subject referred to:-
"About a week ago I ] landed to Ur. Tate about 27 pennyweights
of plain surface wire, such as you intended to test, and of which
you asked ine to furnish you with about 100 ounces. I would like
very much if you would give me an answer in the matter as to
whether you thought you could approve of the wire, so that it may
be introduced in your Works."
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Thomas A. Edison,Esq.,
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Dear Sir;-
I enclose you copy
25th, received from the Thomson Electric Welding Company.
I have acknowledged receipt of the letter and told them that
if you need any assistance , you will commmicate with them.
Yours truly,
i^LtaSE ADDRESS REPLY TO
16 & 18 broad street.
September 29th, 1890.
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this In operation, we. will send an expert to you.
You re truly,
Tho:nson Electric "’e idin<- Oc.
C-enl. Manager
New York City, Oct. 21, 1890,
Dear Edison: •
Re Laboratory Contract. Since the last meeting of the
Hoard, I have rewritten this contract and introdviced all the change
required by the Board. I think that they will still make one more
change, but practically this contract is finished. In due time
I shall ask for a conference with you and Mr, Insull , jointly,
when I shall explain to you just what changes have been made. Mean
time I enclose a copy of my last edition the I3th, dated Oct. 14,
1890 for your reading, if you care to look it ove before I visit
you in a few days hence.
Very truly
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PHONOGRAPH DICTATION.
Charles Batchelor, Esq.,
#33 Y/est 25th Street,
New York City .
Dear Sir:-
Mr. Ott has a3ked me to inform you that he had to
order your Scale, and that the same has not yet been received
at the Laboratory; the same remarks appiy to the Motor- and the
Lines. Your Magnet is being wound.
Yours very truly,
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ABORATORY CONTRACT'.
Take the list which Randolph prepared in¬
cluding depreciation and per centage on tools &c. and de
cide how many of these items ought to go into cost.
Decide who shall own, when the contract expires^
any new machinery which is bought from time to time for
the Laboratory and paid for by the General Co.
Practically how shall Mr. idison's one fourth
be distinguished from work done by him ^or parties with
whom he is under contract to make experiments, for in¬
stance such as the Phonograph Company, Ore Milling Co. &t
,When he does' work in the Laboratory for the N.A.P.Co
shall that come under his quarter, or shall it be turned
over as outside work as provided for in the contract?
As regards work on experiments forr the Elec¬
tric Rai lway what shall constitute cost.* Perhaps Ran¬
dolph's mem. might be taken as a basis of cost in this
regard. If there should be a profit, to whom would
it belong?- fflur. Edison or the General Company?
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425 How Furnace for C . A. Brown
422, Carbon Experiment
~h0 -ovu’ o?:per imonts above mentioned are for the Lamp
Manufacturing Department .
Experiment Wo, 432, Foe her Pa-.ont Exp.
Tins represents work performed in connection with Legal
Feeder Patent litigation, for Mr. Jencta .
Experiment Ho. 379, Determination of Conductors.
She so are determinations liaison Systems in Milv/aukoe, Cin¬
cinnati etc.
Experiment Ho. 40S, Soot Bxp .
-his t/as an experiment to ascertain whether the ejection of
soot from a smoky chimney could be reduced, with particular
reference to the 39th St. Station.
' Experiment Ho. 303, Resistance of wires .
To determine ' the resistance of ■■wires at different tampera-
Exporimant No. 126, Vulcanite Solvent.
Experiment, Ho. 151 Wrought Iron.
Experiment Ho. 23, STORAGE BAOTERY .
Experiment Ho. 367, Insulation test on C-utta Porcha, for HEW YORK
Works.
Experiment Ho. 305, Insulation test for Hr. Insull; Mev/ York
Works .
Experiment Mo. 167, Motor Exp., self explanatory .
Experiment Ho. 194, Ply Biological : experiments conducted in con¬
nection v/ith death by electricity.
Experiment No. 428, Model Motor i-leter; 'i'hi3 was work performed in
connection with tho construction of a meter
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425, Test on Trolley Wire; work done in determining
the strength and conductivity of trolley wire
for Edison Gen'l. Elec. Cc. Reports furnished
to Gen'l. Oo.
419, Testing Lightning Arresters; self explanatoiy .
417, Model Transformer and Tools; Trans former ins
been remodeled and finished, and is now on
test .
411, Lighting Lamps with Intermit tont current ;
Exporir.nnt for Mr. Edison.
594, Standard Copper Resistance'; This was 'Work done
for New York Works; standard resistance raade
and furnished to Works.
592, Winding bobbins for Siemens Alternating Ma¬
chine; for Edison Gen'l. Elec. Go. alternating
'currant work.
403, Standard Clark Cells; furnished Standards to
Hew York Works.
400, Permeability of Cast Iron and Mitis; work done
for Schenectady Works and curves and datft/
furnished.
37G, Alternating and Straight current machine, in
connection with alternating current work.
378, Alternating Transformer, Wostin^iouso Pattern;
work done in testing and improving upon Westing
house Transformer.
338, Dynamometer to teat No. 20 Dynamo; work, done
to test ooramertfial officionoy of No. 20 dynamo.
145, Transformer; Experiments made on continuous
current transformer of 2 different types. Ma¬
chines made, but actual designs altered.
3G9, New Style Lamp Socket; made at suggestion of
Mr. Insvtll; model furnished to Mew York Y/ks.
with explanation and sketches;
401, Test on Now meter made in connection vTith
Experiment No* 1G7.
35G, Insulation test on Eons i late; tests made for
Eergp.nnn & Co. on tieir order; reports fur-
nisliad.
353, Multiple Wire System; Experiments made to
render mult iple wire systems effective.
Experiment Wo. 260, Scale for Determinin'; location of feeder Mains
this was an apparatus that lias been used ever
since its completion in determining conductors
for Central Stations. It will continue to be
exceedingly useful in- that respect.
Experiment Ho. 363, Alteration on Sprague Motor Stylo 6. Shis is
part of i-ir, ;,‘di son’s car schema, and also
part of general dynamo construction.
Experiment Wo. 247, Main s; experiments connected with under¬
ground systan.
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1891. Dick (A.B.) Company (D-91-01)
Th's folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the mimeograph business of the A B
r n™ peArt?in the USC of Edison’s name by J- Lewis Young, sales agent for the
report f to’ Great Britain. A few letters deal with royalty payments. There is also an annual financial
1891. Edison, TA. - General (D-91-02)
This folder contains documents, primarily correspondence, covering a wide variety of subjects. Some of the
material relates to personal matters. Also included are documents that deal with more than one subject, such
as a letter about both the electric light and the phonograph. Documents concerning subjects that do not fall
under the main subject categories are also filed in this folder. Among the items are numerous letters from
°C° f P- La‘hr°P- ^“collaborated with Edison on a science fiction novel called Progress. There are also
letters from Sherburne B. Eaton, Edison s attorney, regarding a variety of legal matters5
1891. Edison, TA. - ,
Is (D-91-03) [not filmed]
Tills folder contains documents relating to Edison’s personal and business finances. Most of the items ar
routine letters of acknowledgement from the German National Bank.
1891. Edison, TA. - Articles (D-91-04)
This folder contains correspondence requesting Edison to write articles; correspondence relating to articles
h^fo '• n°SihIiVnmei.n : ” cd iUerS fr0m i°urnalis,s seeking to interview Edison. Related material can
be found in D-91-43 (Phonograph - General).
1891. Edison, TA. - Autograph and Photograph Requests (D-91-05) [not filmed]
This folder contains routine correspondence requesting Edison’s autograph or asking for his photograph.
1891. Edison, TA. - Bills and Receipts (D-91-06) [not filmed]
This folder contains bills and receipts for routine West Orange laboratory, personal, and office expenses.
1891. Edison, T.A. - Book and Journal Orders (D-91-07) [not filmed]
This folder contains routine correspondence relating to the ordering of books and journals.
1891. Edison, T.A. Checks (D-91-08) [not filmed]
1891. Edison, T. A. - Clubs and Societies (D-91-09) [not filmed]
This folder contains correspondence, receipts, and other routine documents relating to Edison’s membership
Jnsfiin lo ho PI80?1 • “I Profess.onnl organizations. Included are documents pertainingto the Brooklyn
Institute, the Electric Club, the Essex County Countiy Club, and the Pan-Republic Congress Committee
1891. Edison, T.A. - Creditors (D-91-10) [not filmed]
™Sri°'dr COntainS routi"c “frospondenco relating to unpaid bills for Edison's personal and West Orange
laboratory expenses. Related documents can be found in D-91-06 (Edison, T.A. - Bills and Receipts). 8
1891. Edison, T. A. - Employment (D-91-11)
a"itd!lCn.?htr-<:reSP0?dCnCe frr 0r ab.0Ut Cmployecs and former or prospective employees. Included
rpmmmTV handwritten notes regarding various employees, requests by former employees for letters of
recommendation, and letters about other personnel matters.
1891. Edison, T. A. - Family (D-91-12)
™^0'd,Cr contains correspondence and other documents by and about Edison's family. Some of the
“ ' .C°n“rn thc m°nth'y s‘'Ppnd Pa!d fay Edis°a to Margaret Slilwcll, his former mother-in-law. Other
hv Tlinm^ A,0rH-° phyS,‘Ca hcalth °f Edison’s aged father. Samuel. Included also are a few letters
personaTfaTO Ed'S°n’ ^ ^ fr°m boarding sch°o1' and rccluests from various relatives for money or
1891. Edison, T. A. - Real Estate (D-9
This folder contains correspondence relating to thc purchase and sale of land and buildings, along with other
ocuments pertaining to Edison’s real estate holdings. Included are numerous letters about Edison’s mortgage
on tbe Chandler property in Newark, N. J„ and the foreclosure suit brought against that property. Safe
S ‘: t:rnfrrgut “ taxes fdu.e on Edlson’s Silver Lake property and correspondence rcgardingold deeds
to land at Menlo Park. Many of the letters are by Edison’s attorney, Sherburne B. Eaton.
1891. Edison, T. A. - Secretary (D-91-14) [not filmed]
This folder rontains correspondence and other documents relating to Alfred O. Tate’s role as Edison’s private
secretary, along with occasional items pertaining to Tate’s private life. Routine letters addressed to Tate in
his capacity as Edison s secretary or representative that do not fall under the main subject categories are
|CJ!"a. y fdcdln th,s f0!dar- ^“ included are several routine items regarding John F. Randolph’s role as
fhl hTsin^c f CCPer.a "I S °ffiCe assistant- Le,ters addrcssed to Tate that deal with a specific subject or
the business of a particular company can be found in their appropriate subject folders.
1891. Edison, T. A. - Shipping (D-91-15) [not filmed]
mherf eouinrnf If tn an,d°lhcr documon,s relating to the shipment of supplies, machinery, and
1891. Edison, T. A. - Unsolicited Correspondence - Advice (D-91-lfi)
™Li°fn°fe?hf ifoTmonif.0 Correspondonc° suggesting improvements in Edison’s inventions, asking him for
advice on technical matters, or requesting his assistance in improving or promoting an invention.
1891. Edison, T.A. - Unsolicited Correspondence - Business (D-91-17) [not filmed]
hfom’rfnf ‘if "S "’“‘f' ° corresPondence from individuals requesting agencies for Edison’s inventions,
bfsfnesflvhh Edison. PUrC laSC " ^ aSk''ng f°r °thCr inf°™ati°n ab°Ul his invcntioas’ " to do
_ mutacturing Co Included arc letters concerning agreements between Edison, Felix Lalande, and Georges
Chaperon in regard to galvanic batteries; correspondence pertaining to a rental dispute between the company
1891. Electric Light - General (D-91-22)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to electric lighting and power. Included are
letters pertaining to cable insulation, electrocution, insurance for central stations, and lamp filaments. There
is also correspondence from Charles T. Porter in regard to a Porter engine at the West Orange laboratoiy;
a letter by Hermann Claudius about the early electric light work done at Menlo Park and Pearl Street; and
a copy of an article by Dr. Horny G. Piffard describing the use of Edison current for medical purposes.
1891. Electric Light - Edison Electric Light Company - General (D-91-23)
COntains “"-“pondence relating to the business of the Edison Electric Light Co. Although this
“nfinued unde °iha f °f Ed,so“ Gcncral Elcctric Co. on August 1, 1890, certain business operations
z muss ^ ic,,“ ■,e *
1891. Electric Light - Edison Electric Light Company - Illuminating Companies (D-91-24)
of>Edhn?>nhmd!im correspondence, reports, and other documents relating to the organization and operation
illuminating companies. Included are many letters and some reports from William D. Marks,
supervising engineer and general manager of the Edison Electric Light Co. of Philadelphia. Some of these
mrrnT d P a,m investigation of a boiler explosion in the Philadelphia central station. There is also
correspondence from F. S. Gorton, secretaiy-treasurcrof the Chicago Edison Co., relating to environmental
1891. Electric Light - Edison General Electric Company - General (D-91-25)
ler contains correspondence relating to the business of the Edison General Electric Co. Most of the
E,a‘°n' 8cncial counsel, and pertain to assignment of patents, interferences, and
legal services A few documents in Edison’s hand relate to the choice of new dynamos for the Edison
1BV1. exhibitions (D-91-31)
^ihe P^nfnClC- COnr-CC,rn,in? cxhibi,ions in Canada, Europe, and Ihe United States. Some
1891. Fort Myers (D-91-32)
“nta|ns correspondence pertaining to the maintenance of Edison’s home and property at Fort
Myers Florida. Most of the letters are by William E. nibble, caretaker, and relate to the sale and shipment
and TameT Wn, °lhcr it“n)'s [r°m Fort MVcrs- One letter announces the arrival of Edison’s father, Samuel,
and James Symington. Related documents can be found in D-91-12 (Edison T. A. - Familvl
1891. Mining - General (D-91-34)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to mining and ore milling. Included are
numerous inquiries from mine operators regarding the application, buying, or leasing of Edison’s ore
run wT8 eC!Ulpment- Some of the letters are by John Birkinbine, a consulting engineer hired by Edison to
h i ST8 §rx?°n S a" j “dviSe hlm on related Pr°jccts- 0thcr letters pertain to business dealings
between Walter S. Mallory and the Edison Ore Milling Co., Ltd. g
1891. Mining - Edison Iron Concentrating Company (D-91-35)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents pertaining to the business of the Edison Iron
1 ra' ,n« Co- Most 0 th0 lctte.rs are by Walter S. Mallory, secretary-treasurer and general manager.
Some of the documents relate to a visit by Ira Miller, Lewis Miller, and Mallory to the Ogden mill There is
°f °rC Pr°PCrty lhC WCSI and ,he a“)uisiti°a °f crushing
1891. Mining - Edison Ore Milling Company, Ltd. (D-91-36)
This folder contains correspondence relating to the business of the Edison Ore Milling Co., Ltd. Included are
inquiries regarding the amount and value of Edison’s stock in the company. included are
1891. Mining - Foreign (D-91-37)
^°^rlnr=0rldC,nCeT and,°lhCrd0CUments rclat!"g 10 mm‘ng a"d ore milling in Canada, South
Africa, Sweden, and Venezuela. Included are documents pertaining to ore samples sent to Edison and offers
to sell or rent mining properties to him. There is also a letter by T. Forster Brown containing an extensive
report on magnetic iron ore resources in various regions of the world.
1891. Mining - Mines and Ores (D-91-38)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to mines and ores to be bouaht sold
wanmd’t°r ‘ n ‘ ,me °Lti1I° lettCrS deal w!th thc min!ng intcrests of individuals and companies who either
wanted to sell property to Edison or to have their ores tested. There are also inquiries regarding Edison’s ore
rnn“nsPbry°Edisom ^ °f 'he f°ldCr * “ 9'Page ““ °f mi"ing pr0pcrties in New J«*K with
1891. Mining - Ogden Mine (D-91-39)
™Sorf°‘de“0atains “rrespondence pertaining to activities at Edison’s Ogden mine. Included are letters and
1891. Mining - Surveys (D-91-40) [not filmed]
Ih'pnf°‘dcr“ntainS rou*ine correspondence and reports from Samuel G. Burn, R. D. Casterline, and Arthur
mon . ; M lZ Srcy d0mcstic m!ning ProPorties Edison. The documents relate to
properties in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.
1891. Motion Pictures (D-91-41)
oflithe'dlptt^rc^ainS cPrr®?P,0nd®nc0 pcrtnining to the kinetograph and other motion picture equipment. Some
l lnqU,r!“ fromu ,he PubIic sce*<ing information about the kinetograph, suggesting
eTeTfrom Over & ir?Hng bUy,°r T maChi"eS f°r CXhibiU°n °r sales Proses. Also included are
L D cksZand John Ot “ * P laWyCrS’ regarding patent aPPIications and assignments by W. K.
1891. Patents (D-91-42)
This folder contains correspondence to and from Edison’s patent attorneys and agents, along with other
documents relating to domestic and foreign patent applications, patent litigation, and other patent matters.
Included are letters pertaining to patents for the electric lamp, the phonograph, and ore milling machinery.
There are also letters congratulating Edison on the successful outcome of Edison Electric Light Co. v. U.S.
Electric Lighting Co. and reports by attorney Sherburne B. Eaton to the Patent Litigation Committee, which
was created to review the status of pending interferences. Many of the letters are from the law firm of Dyer
1891. Phonograph - General (D-91-43)
This folder contains correspondence about the technical and commercial development of the phonograph.
Some of the letters arc by Edison’s attorney, Sherburne B. Eaton, and relate to Edison’s suit against Ezra T.
Gilliland and John C. Tomlinson. There are also letters about Edison’s investment in the Phonogram a
monthly phonograph magazine published by Virginia H. McRae; items regarding the lawsuit between the
North American Phonograph Co. and the Automatic Phonograph Exhibition Co.; correspondence about
musical recording sessions at the West Orange laboratory; and requests for information about phonographs
and cylinder recordings. Individual letters pertaining to more than one phonograph company are also filed in
1891. Phonograph - Automatic Phonograph Exhibition Company (D-91-44)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the business of the Automatic
Phonograph Exhibition Co. Included are documents concerning the company’s lawsuit against the North
American Phonograph Co., the appointment of trustees, and a disagreement with the Edison interests over
the sale of machines and the use of appropriate nameplates on them.
1891. Phonograph - Edison Phonograph Company (D-91-45)
This folder contains correspondence pertaining to the business of the Edison Phonograph Co. Most of the
letters relate to taxes owed by the company to the State of New Jersey. There are also letters about patent
applications and the election of company officers. Among the correspondents are Eaton & Lewis and Dyer
& Seely, two law firms that handled company affairs.
1891. Phonograph - Edison Phonograph Works - General (D-91-46)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents pertainingto the business of the Edison Phonograph
Works. Many of the letters are from Sherburne B. Eaton, Edison’s attorney, and relate to various legal
matters. Included are letters about the transfer of property to the township of West Orange and the company’s
lawsuits against the Edison Phonograph Toy Manufacturing Co. and the North American Phonograph Co.
1891. Phonograph - Edison Phonograph Works - Accounts (D-91-47)
This folder contains routine financial records of the Edison Phonograph Works. Included are monthly
statements, time and payroll sheets, and memoranda of daily shipments and weekly billing statements to the
Edison General Electric Co.
1891. Phonograph - Foreign - General (D-91-48)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the commercial development of Edison’s
phonograph in the United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico, and Russia. Included are letters about the presentation
of the phonograph to various foreign dignitaries. Among the correspondents are Julius H. Block, Edison’s
phonograph agent in Russia; Josef Hofmann, the Polish pianist; and Sherburne B. Eaton, Edison’s attorney.
1891. Phonograph - Foreign - Edison United Phonograph Company (D-91-49)
PhnnI0„IdCIh rnt?in? c.or.rcsP°"dence and othcr documents relating to the business of the Edison United
romoanv" and*°t ^ d°cu?1<int| abou* the assignment of Edison’s English phonograph patents to the
company and items about the technical development of the nickel-in-lhe-slot phonograph. TTiere are also
letters about the presentation of a phonograph to the president of Chile. Among the correspondents are G N
Morison, secretary of the company; Jesse Seligman, a New York investment banker who helped organize the
company; and Sherburne B. Eaton, Edison’s attorney.
1891. Phonograph - Foreign - Frnzar & Company (D-91-50)
j?n^0ltd<T T,!ainS 1C°7eSp°nden“ aad othcr documents relating to phonograph sales agencies in China and
,Ina‘Udcd ,are'etters a^°ut the shipment of phonograph supplies to China and Japan and an agency for
mckebm-the-slot phonographs m Japan. All of the letters are by Everett Frazar, Edison’s phonograph a^ent
1891. Phonograph - North American Phonograph Company - General (D-91-51)
“"-espondence and other documents relating to the business of the North American
Phonograph Co. Some of the documents pertain to a note for $68,575 owed to Edison by Jesse Lippincott,
Phnnn w Cnmpa"y' 0lher llems concern » Pr°P°sed suit against the company by Edison and thcEdison
honograph Works, a controversy over the exhibit of phonographs in Canada; and the payment of taxes owed
by the company to the State of New Jersey. Many of the letters are by ITtomas R. Lombard, vice
1891. Phonograph - North American Phonograph Company - Subsidiary Sales Companies (D-91-52)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the business affairs of various regional
mmn Parre-SiUnderi ®°ntraCt W1,h thc Norlh American Phonograph Co. Many of the letters arc by^local
company officials seeking to purchase phonograph components or offering suggestions about technical
improvements. At the end of the folder is a nationwide list of local phonograph companies.
1891. Phonograph - Talking Doll (D-91-53)
This folder contains correspondence concerning the manufacture and promotion of Edison’s talking doll. Most
the doll sZeof tht,,10 diS?n Phono8raPh T°y Manufacturing Co., which marketed
“°m.e°f th.e “re from stockholders inquiring about the financial status of the company. Also
.ncluded lire letters from Edison’s attorney, Sherburne B. Eaton, regarding the termination of the company’s
foreign license because of non-payment of Edison’s guaranteed royalties. y
1891. Sims-Edison Electric Torpedo Company (D-91-54)
™^°'dcr “ntains corr®spondence pertaining to the business of the Sims-Edison Electric Torpedo Co.
rd0rUm0n" a,-°Ut *hC SpCCd a"d range 0f thc comPany’s cIec‘ric torpedo and lettersTbout the
a emnuTfiiterestEdtenin ,[ ‘hc t0rpcd° in Europc’ °thcr itcms pertain *° the unsuccessful
electrician Mnst » ?8 thc "CW comPany s board of directors and becoming its consulting
electrician. Most of the letters are by Everett Frazar, president of the American company.
1891. Telegraph - General (D-91-55)
TuinS corfresP°ndcace rclali"S to thc technical and commercial development of the telegraph.
Some of the letters are from the law firm of Eaton & Lewis and concern the ease of Welch v. Edison. Other
he m ?„„rn ° ^adr(uplcx putent royalties. Also included is a letter from Stephen Vail (son of Alfred Vail,
the co-inventor of the telegraph) offering an original telegraph receiver for sale.
1891. Telegraph - Fhonoplex (D-91-S6)
TclLr^nhv Mncfnf,TrrrP°ndCnCe °thcr documents Pertaining to the Edison Phonoplex System of
Te'egraphy. Most of the documents relate to the installation of phonoplex circuits on various American and
Camuhan ra.lroads Some of the items deal with the problem of finding suitable batteries, condensers and
SS* HH n,COrirr,rPO"dCnCe b by W'S’ field a8ent for the phonoplex system. Most
, are.addre?sed t0 Edison s secretary. Alfred O. Tate. Tate served as the company’s electrician
nnl° W ,ts da,'y b“s'ness operations. Edison himself was only tangentially involved in phonoplex
hflRR7 r %"nd V7y n"ers !° 0r from him can be found !n lhis folder. The case study approach begun
on that raHroTh r h° Pcnn^lva"la substantive items relating to the operatio/of the phonoplex
station, mu u C,Cn f C- d' In addltlon’ lhe foIIowing documents have been filmed: a summary
statement of the phonoplex business for the first three quarters of 1891 and a letter by Tate providing an
(Sn^
1891. Telephone (D-91-57)
Co!VndWel™'uniorSPOndCnCe EdiS°n’S PatCnt assi8"mcnts ‘° the American Bell Telephone
18^1, West Orange Laboratory (D-91-58)
^the° WesrOram>oCh!horn?ndCnA f' rcP°f tal aad 0,b®r documents relating to experimentsand tests conducted
GVneram ^ T0'^"1017- a mduded ,arc 1,sts of experimental accounts chargeable to the Edison
purchase o^a'compkte^Tof^UdS.'clectrica'rpatents0 d°CUmCn,S *h°
1891. Dick (A.B.) Company (D-91-01)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents relating to the
mimeograph business of the A. B. Dick Co. Some of the items pertain to the
use of Edison’s name by J. Lewis Young, sales agent for the mimeograph in
Cireat Britain. A few letters deal with royalty payments. There is also an
annual financial report for this company.
Approximately 20 percent of the documents have been filmed. The
following categories of documents have not been filmed: requests for
autographed photographs of Edison; letters of transmittal and
acknowledgement; annual meeting announcements; other routine business
correspondence.
.. .. M , Uear Sir:— We enclose herewith our check #403
on the Chatham National Bank of New York City in the sum of $749. 52
in payment of royalties fear quarter ending January 1st, 1891, as per
. enclosed statement. * 7 r
At the annual meeting of the Stockholders of
this Company, held this day, the retiring Board of Directors were
reelected and the enclosed statement of the past years business,
was read, approved and ordered placed on file.
At the meeting of the Directors immediately following ,
a dividend of ten per cent was declared on both Preferred and
Common stock, amounting to $15,000.00, payable June 1st next, and
the balance of the NET GAIN for the year, amounting to $15,312.01
was ordered to- be placed to the credit- of Surplus account .
It will be noticed that notwithstanding the expenditure
of $13,576.04 for prosecuting infringers of patents owned by us,
the statement shows an actual NET GAIN. of over 30 % on our Capital
stock . *■-.
A glance at the Comparative Statement of the business
done during the past three years shows a steady and healthy growth
in.voluhe, and a corresponding yearly increase in profits.
The business for the ensuing year will be pushed vigor¬
ously and we confidently expect to be able to show a larger in¬
crease still in. volume and profits at the next annual meeting.
Yours very truly,
A. B. Dick,
President .
[ENCLOSURE]
Statement of the business of the, A. B.
for the year ending April 30th, 1801.' '
~ ^lGS' f0r the y ear $ 158 , 817 91
-JLOHTBA.
Oost of Mdse . sold and on hand
including labor and material
Less inventory of stock on hand
Actual SHOP COST of Mdse, sold
Aod Royalties paid on same
Total cost of mse, sold
Add profit on Discount account
GROSS PROFIT for the year
§ 77,538.36
— 24., 5_6i._C.S_
53,973.68
_ 3.905.38
56,877.06
95’,.940 . 85 •
983. 56
96,923.41
Expense account proper
Advertising "
Salary '•
Commission "
Interest & Exchange Acct.
Collection Expense Acct.
Hew York Expense Acct. (13 months)
Philadelphia » Acct.( 7 months)
Total General Expense
NET PROFIT on goods sold
11,931.69
9,945.21
15,514.63
747.17
350.25
123.34
10,262.07
_ 4.,163_.d9_
_ 53, 037.55.
43,885.86
ordinary. expense.
Patent Expenses for prosecuting
Infringers
Deduct accounts charged to
Profit & Loss account
ACTUAL NET GAIN for the year
Add undivided profits in Surplus
account
Total undivided profits
April 30th, 1891
- 13,.57_6_._0_4 _
30,309.82
_ _ 97.81 _
30,212.01
_ 9,_6_55-.-0_7. _
39 . 837 . 08
[ENCLOSURE]
Statement of Assets and Liabilities of
A. B. Dick Company. April 30tli, 1891.
ASSETS.
Cash on hand
Accounts and Bills Receivable,
Office Fixtures at Chicago
Hew York and Philadelphia
Patents and Contract account
Mdse . on hand as per Inventory
Columbian Exposition Stock
Total Assets.
$ 4,457.53
55,626.50
2,224.30
106,000.00
24,564.68
500.00
$ 193,373.01.
LIABILITIES.
Accounts we' o we (for April 1891)
Capital Stock,
Undivided Profits in
Surplus account
Undivided Profits earned in
year ending April 30th, 1891.
Total Liabilities
3,505.93
150,000.00
9,655.07
30.212.01
193,373.01.
in* to *18 W~re n0t in0lUde a statement of notes amount-
ing to .16,000 given by us to secure a loan made by the Gillilan<
fnrv,L1nnmPany of Adrian, Mich, who manufacture our goods, and
entire Sant "T/TT ^aranteed notes and ^rtgfge oA thei3
thereby it Snd Llabilities are affected alike
thereby, it actually forms no part of our business statement.
A. B. Dick,
President .
[ENCLOSURE]
Comparative Statement of Sales for the years ending
April 30th, 1889, 1890 and 1891.
Mimeographs
Mimeograph Supplies
All other goods
Total Seles
Year ending
1889
$43,333.83
86,384.08
9„705.37
79 , 422 .38
Year ending
1890
62,139.03
30,280.83
jy.j68S.j59
113,103.45'
Year ending
1891
$ 70,419.79
66,215.83
16,182.29
152,817. Ol"
Percentage increase in Total sales 1891 over 1890 35-. ll£
Percentage increase in Total sales 1891 over 1889 92.41^;
Comparative Statement of Gross Profits for the years
ending April 30th 1889, 1890 and 1891
Mimeographs
Mimeograph Supplies
All other goods
Totals
Year ending
1889
$20,762.06
15,036.80
2,853.15
45,152.51
Year ending
1890
$ 36 ,702.15
24,422.92
3,400,50
64,525.55
Year ending
1891
f: 42,391,02
49,381. 34
_ 5,150.55
96 , 923. 41~
Percentage increase in Total profits
Percentage increase in Total profits
1891 over 1890 -50. -81#
1891 over 1889-114, 64#
Mr* Thomas A.- Edison,
Orange, N.J.
Dear Sir Eaelosed please find. New York Ex¬
change for $660.00 in full of annual dividend of 10# on sixty six (66)
shares of stock registered in your name on our hooks ,as specified. in
receipt herewith, which please sign and return.
Yours very truly,
Enclosure.
We are just in receipt of a. letter from Mr. J. Lewis
Young, London, Eng,, who has been handling Mimeographs for us in
Great Britain, in which he advises us as follows: As I have
fully explained the whole of the circumstances to Mr. Edison, I am
quite sure he will not see me a loser by the motives which have ac- I
tuated you. The fact of the matter is, you have an agreement with
Mr. Edison for selling an invention in the United States only, and
you have desired to extend that business to other countries without
taking any risk upon yourselves, etc., etc." k x h.h x "I regard
myself as, and those interested with me, as you will find perhaps,
at the right moment, as perfectly independent of the A.B. Dick Co.
with an absolute right to sell a copying apparatus: called the Edi¬
son Mimeograph. And if you can see your way to supply us with ma¬
chines, you are at prefect liberty to do so." x x x x x "As regards
Mr. Edison's name, I certainly never understood that Mr. Edison ob¬
jected to it; in fact, I have reason to believe that this is not
the case; and it is singular to remark that it is only when you
found we were likely to have litigation, that you found it was like¬
ly to be dropped."
In regard to the above, we will be pleased to: have you write
us a letter in conformity with our contract with you, stating brief,
ly that our company is the only one who has a right to use your
name in connection with the Mimeograph. And if you have been in
correspondence with Mr. Young on thi 3. s ub j e ct , we should be pleased
to have you send us a copy of your. correspondence, or a synopsis of ,
Trusting that you will give this matter your early attention,
Dictated A.B.D.
l^&^igoi^ii^eQGfrapb,
'and other' - ' '
M^laV'fel €#<:©1)ayiC:e§,
lihtftUts a* Edison, u*. imL — /o
!’ : ■ Otange, N. d. .
L , . A „ »?ar Sit ir-»our tto taypi the etb inst. .dny it
*° tre“ ',>u' Mr-T',"og *“1'
TDsnkln? yon fw
■ • /W W «y,
M bbanch^S"' ' fiSwJWipveograph,
«. _ IsSslSL
S2-I54 LAKE STREET. CHICAGO. « *^03™ Antwerp ” (-y?
m^auy/r 0ct« i*. 1891. /jp
Mr. Thomas A, Edison, ''
Orange, N. J.
the Chatham NationS^aS'oflS^rf ciJJT S"1 ^ °hfk #563L 0n
swra: wSS-^'
897 Mimeographs at 75* $672.75
418 Mimeographs Exported, 5*, _ 20,90 $695.65
Amount of repairs 16s ,9
acknowledge
PleaseAreoeipt , and oblige
Yours veiy truly,
■ececeiv^
0CT 1 C I09J y
1891. Edison, T.A. - General (D-91-02)
This folder contains documents, primarily correspondence, covering a
wide variety of subjects. Some of the material relates to personal matters.
Also included are documents that deal with more than one subject, such as a
letter about both the electric light and the phonograph. Documents
concerning subjects that do not fall under the main subject categories are also
filed in this folder. Among the items are numerous letters from George P.
Lathrop, who collaborated with Edison on a science fiction novel called
Progress. There are also letters from Sherburne B. Eaton, Edison’s attorney,
regarding a variety of legal matters.
Approximately 90 percent of the documents have been filmed. The
following categories of documents have not been filmed: routine
correspondence from the law firm of Eaton & Lewis regarding salaries;
documents that duplicate information in selected items; duplicate copies of
selected documents.
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Dear Mr. Edison:
New Yorfc City, Jan. I2th, I89i.
?“a1da?1or“;o "4 ■ *IU »°"s *” ^
,v , , Pe Contracts. Mr. Bush has given me a oodv of the
We have°ne^ h J6fre\LiPpln00t^ 811(1 the Graphophone cSJpany.
taka fh™ U ?ad the? bef°re* He Save them to me today. I shall
take them out to you in a day or two, in' person.
c + ?e Fofffited Stock. /Bush saysthat Lippincott got my
6 Tnn flhLf Snanlng^ha!> L'had doited in your behalf the^
it was all riVWN*^*+*+^*+St00V- Bush says that LiPPincott said
a11 but that sometime in the future he would try to
convince ^ that you opght %i i all fairness to give him back soJe
oi lx.. i tola Bush that you were already out of nooket soma hnr>H
nes7'a^drthI+a^nMi’+ Llpplh??U or ^tody else inPthe whole busi-
ness, ana that equity was all on your side.
* , . Ogderi Defective Record. At Mr. Perry* s reauest. T
the6oiSnnM^«th+ "&&* °f getting the public records^ title to1
much°trouMer stra>ght,ened out “« 1 think I can do it without
biq nr^yffaii Inj«notion Suit. Mr.Bush has given me a copy of
!iPttduri£: 1 haTve sent to Mr. Gottschalk to get kirn me a
, 1 hear that a friend of Tomlinson hasput
night ^ 11 f °f Speak8I,S at Holland Society Dinner tomorrow
/ Please exouse jr inted signature to avoid delay.
! / Very truly yours,
I / S.B. Eaton p A.G.M.
New aork City, Jan 16, 1891.
Deal’ Hr. Edison: ‘
Re Filament. Suit. The record is closed in the
Filament Case. All testimony is ended. The next thing is to pre¬
pare the case for argument. We ought to get it before Judge
Wallace the last of February or early in March , if he will consent
to- hear it. Dyer is not well and has gone away for two weeks.
Re Anmiql Meeting. The personnel of the new Board
will probably be settled at the next meet/ng. The Annual Meeting
takes place at 12 next Monday. Mr. Willard told me today that ho
thought there would be no difference ofybpinion.
Re Coplay lease. Rare cannot find the deed from dead
Forster to himself. I am going to examine the records in the
Surrogate's Office here to see if it throw any light on this pro¬
blem. I wish to avoid bringing an action to remove cloud of
title, if possible, for it wotild be tedious and expensive. I shall
be out to see you in a few days and? shall explain this matter
more fully. j
Re Exhibition Co'. Gojttschalk sends me word that his
Company will give Insull full powe^f to adjust differences. That
being so, I think we can save the Exhibition Co. Still t
deal of hard work will have to be 1
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Ra Phono. Works. and Edison Demand Notes. The Board
approved the issue of demand notes already given you. The Selig-
mann Director declined to vote either way until he could investip
gate. The meeting adjourned untip. nextbTuesday when the questi n
of demand notes yet to be gitoen mou, and ompensation to you for
loss in selling securities, will /come i
Re Lipp incot t Note. When you return I shall go
to Orange to submit /to you the agreements which 1 have drawn in
this matter, before (showing then* Jo Bush. Meantime X shall retain
the old note and takl^ the new owe.
Very truly yours,
S.B. Eaton, p A.G.M
EATON & LEWIS
Thomas A. Edison, Esq,,
near Sir:
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4-7^c- rc • ^ aSrS0abl0, Will you kindly send me a cheque for
$736, oS, in full payment of my salary to January I, 1891. My
last cheque paid me up to August 18, 1890. Prom that date to
January X, is four months and thirteen days, making $736.55.
I pay- disbursements out of my salary. These dis¬
bursements amo unted in the yea r 1890 to about $700. This in¬
cludes your share of my firms cash disbursements in the E.U.P.Co.
although your share has not been charged to yonr account* Our *
cash disbursements in that matter were $1,061.77-. We have-not
been paid as yet a penny of those disbursements , nor has our bill
for serv ices been paid'.
, Some of the items of cash disbursemnts I have made
for you relate to matters which; are not properly covered by my
agreement, and I may at some future time bring this matter again
to your attention. However, it is comparatively a small affair.
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A. 0. rate, Esq.,
Dear Sir
Pursuant to yourvre quest I mail you under separate
cover a copy of the last-edTfion of the Electric Railway nontract,
being wieneteenth proof, Feb. 5, T89’. This contains the changes
made by ...r "illard and "r "oster injoint conference about '"eb 4
The last edition of the laboratory contract is the I5h
'6 1 have but one copy, but shall get two more from
the printer today and mail them to you tomorrow/ "‘ill jrcra kindly
make on one of them the changes which you spoke to me about on
riday and return it to me Please make the changes you suggested
which would result in altering the present phraseology and plan
as little as possible The other copy please cetain for your files
T have made notes of quite a number of changes which are still to
be made in thisrcontract An earlier ed;tion was executed in Octo¬
ber, but it was understood that changes might be made ani that the
>ent might then be executed again
Ve ry t rul y yours ,
3 S 'Eaton, p A 0 n'i
dated .Tan •
agreei
EQUITABLE BUILDING )
EATON & LEWIS ,7
S.B. EATON
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Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Dear Sir:
Re Phonograph Matters. I beg to sum up progress
within the last few days as follows:
(I) Re E.P.Co. Mr. Bush informs me that he v/as in s
error in stating that Mr. Lippincott holds a writing from you
personally to the effect that there were no claims against the E.
P.Oo. when the deal was made. Mr. Bush now states hhat this
statement was made to Mr. Lippincott by Mr. Gilliland, acting as
your agent. Mr. L. believes that this statement was in writing
and will endeavor to find the writing itself just as soon as he is '
able to go through his safe.
(2) Re N.A.P.Co. Mr. Bush notified me on the 13th
mst. that the statement of the entire indebtedness of this Company
are still in course of preparation and that a copy would be given
me at the earliest moment.
(3) Re E.U.P.Co. The first annual meeting for the
election of Directors will take place on March 2nd. Unless you
-TLCUIAS d-Ay
/and Gou mud make some arrangement about voting on your joint hold-
/ ings, the Seligmanns will carry the election. They hold just
half the stock, while you ard 'Gou- aud hold the other half. I hold
your certificate of stock in my possession. Mr. lord holds Gour-
aud’s certificate. Gouraud is here and no doubt he will confer
with you about the approaching election. My own judgment, is that
Cochrane and associates do not attend to business, and ought to
step out, but I suppose that at the approaching election the same
thing will be done as was done last year, viz: the Seligmann
pepple will select their fo r men, while you and Gouaud will select
\ your and his four, and somebody like Mr. Mills will be the ninth
ipan.
(4) Re N.A.P.Co. When yovi return I think you will
have to name a day for a long conference with Lipp-incott, Bush and
myself about settling up the complications. On that occasion we
must give them some pretty plain talk.
(5) Re Consolidation. Y/estinghouse had an inters
view in hhe Daily Continent yesterday stating there was no founda¬
tion for the telegraphic reports from Pit sburgh that a consolida¬
tion was on the carpet.
Very truly yours.
c0.
Edison Mimeograph Company,
LUDGATE HILL,
LONDON, EC.
February 18th. 1891.
A. 0. Tate Esq.
Lewellyn Park,
New Jersey.
My Dear Tate,
I feel absolutely ashamed of myself for not having had
the courtesy to write to you before this, but I have been so busy
and so much occupied in this little, muddling, messing Mimeograph
Business that I have almost forgotten that I am what I am, and
have been, and it is only within these lhst few days that I have
been able to get out of the absolute one-ness of idea in which
. the whole thing has thrown me.
How are you getting on, and how are all things prosper¬
ing with you?
I intended from time to time to let you have a report of
how things were going on here, and I have sent for various things
connected with the Phonograph.
f/ • The Phonograph is getting lower and lower in public es¬
timation, that is my opinion, until it found itself the other day
at the Aquarium at Westminster, being exhibited for 3d. a time,
that is about half the price of a museum. Col. Gouraud
in order that he might endeavour to get a rise a £ out of the Press
asked me to go down there with a Mimeograph, which I did. The
Press saw the Phonograph, which they had seen hundreds of times
before, and absolutely pooh-poohed it, and the Mimeograph of
course they had seen in various other fOrms in hundreds of thou¬
sands of times before.
I / When I found out what kind of business was proposed at
the Aquarium, of course I withdrew the Mimeograph, as I could not
stand being ■smade a side show of. It seems to me that the gallant
Colonel will soon run to the end <o£his tether, and then probably
something will be done with this^Hjjd invention.
I should be very glad myself to give an order for 1000
phonographs, not quite to the pattern which was put out in Ameri¬
ca when I was there, but very similar to it, and at least 5,000
phonographic-dolls, and I could do a business with them right
away and make a profit of £10 each on the phonographs, and £1 each
on the dolls, and I oould probably keep that up for some considera¬
ble time; but thirty-two millions of people in England alone
require a. lot .of supplying when you have the right thing.
. - , I am glad to tell you that the law-suit, which the other
people thought right to bring against me for infringement of the
patent is luckily very soon to be brought to a close, and there¬
fore I hope that I shall win the case of which I thingt there is
every probability, as I hoped from the first, and I shall once more
regain some peace of mind. What with this law-suit, the loss of
,1° much money in the Phonograph Business, the absolute standstill
which it ultimately reached, and the difficulty of even making
the slightest impression with>vtheMimeograph Business in conse¬
quence, and of the copying apparatus being full of inferior ma¬
chines, I have been eonsiderably worried, and really out of myself
right 6r> thingS Seem now quite lighter, and I hope to go on all
Dick continually writes me, and he is very kind, al¬
though very sharp after the oof. For every dollar that he has
made out of me I have spent something like 100 for him in adver-
tising the Mimeograph Business, and X think it would have been '
only fair for him to have let me carry stock, instead of which I
have not only to find the money to pay for the goods before they
: PUt °n !hlp’ but have t0 keep them in stock, and then sell
them on credit because no one in this country pays cash, so that
it has really been a serious matter, as I could not get my money
from Gouraud, and he is afraid now to ask the Seligmans toad-
f or°the ^be at ^ m°re5 h0WeVer> 811 thlngs wil1 turn out in the end
that the wLt«rV«at IT WifS and family' «• in good health, and
that the winter has not been so severe with you as it has with us
8*.*e8S* ln proportion» because you are somewhat accustomed to ’
cold and we are not,
.. . We have had skating for six or seven weeks together,
which is unprecedented, even this morning we had ten degrees of
t „>,nn know JifJI can d0 anything for you here in London,
I shall be very happy indeed at all times.
Give my kind regards to Insull, when you see him.
Yours very sinosmiir
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to the first division, under the head of Unite,! State and Foreign Countries, which is far
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writers of America. ‘ 1
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My Dear Mr Edison,
I am sorry that I have not written to you before this,
but I have beeh so busy with the introduction of 'the Mimeograph
business into this country that every moment of my life seems
occupied, including Sundays.
I should be very much obliged to you if you could send
me over one of those water motors for the Phonograph, which you
constructed. I should be very willing, of course, to pay for it
if you would allow me to do so, or to send you anything in ex¬
change for it. I would like to have the motor, governor, and
base, or if you can find it in your heart to send me a complete
machine, so much the better.
I daresay you have heard that I have quitted Gouraud
in consequence of the unsatisfactoriness as to relations with you
&c. , but at the same time, there v/ill be a business in the Phono¬
graph for the man 'who knows how to handle it, but it will not,
I am quite sure, bed done through company-mongers, my idea is to
buy a Phonograph for £5, and to sell it for £20, and as fast as
you can make them sell them, and divide the difference with those
who have got a right to it.
I get many enquiries for the Phonographic-doll, and could
sell a large quantity of them if I had them. I hope that one of
these days you will get all the reward you deserve for your la¬
bors on the phonograph.
I have written to Mr Tate a letter which probably he
might read to you, or at least portions of it, in regard to what
is being done here.
Y/ith kind regards believe me
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machinery at ;the rolling mill. He is a man of some ability but I know nothing of
the merits of this carbon. Nor do I know that you care. for my such thing as
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V/e have no .catalogue of our cigarette machines. They make
a tout 90,000 cigarettes a day, and are making 99 per cenhof ithe
cigarettes made in the United States. You can see t!ie character
of their work by looking at any American cigarettes you now see
on the market.
If you will advise me o f the country and place where the
machines are wanted, I will gveyou further information.
Yours truly,
Pres ' t.
No.
Dated.
The Western Onion Telegraph Company.
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Rec’d ai
Electrical Engineer.
A Weekly Review of Theoretical and Applied Electricity.
New York, 150 Broadway, . March. 17th,
&
A. Edison, Esq*,
Orange, N, J,
Dear Sir:
In pursuance ofay usual custom, I propose to deliver
a lecture on the “Progress of the Year“, in which will be brought
out the improvements made during 1890.
As an additional feature in this. year's lectu're , I
Purpose, as far as possible, to have each inventor describe hi*
own improvements, and to that end I ‘would consider it a great
favor if you will support me by your presenoe and assistance
on the evening of the lecture. The latter will be held at the
Electric Club, No. 17 East 22nd St., New York, on Friday,
March 27th, at 8 P. M,
I shall call upon you to explain your
and Thermo-Magnetic Motor. If you can bring with you
a large chart showing the invention, it would be of naterial
assistance. A blackboard will be provided. j
(2)
Kindly inform me whether 1 may ® imt on you, and rest
assured in advance of my appreeuatuon and willingness to recipro¬
cate the favor.
An early reply will oblige.
Electrical Engineer.
(incorporated ]
A Weekly Review of Theoretical and Applied Electricity.
New York, 150 Broadway, .
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Mr* Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, N. J,
. March 19th T
... 1891
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Dear Mr. Edison:
I be/; to submit the following:
(I) Re Attachment of Works v Toy Co.
Jad.sce Depue heard argument on both sides today on the
;j question of allowing is to appeal. Governor Bcdle argued
strongly against it. Tile Judge finally decided in our
favor. It turns out that when ho was in active practice
he gave an opinion on a question once which committed him
to the view as regards principles of law on which he has
decided this attachment against as. i/e said today it was
decidedly a case to appeal. The conditions in favor
and against appealing I shall submit to you orally the
j first of the week. They are too complicated to submit
! in writing. I shall also discuss the question of talcing
the opinion in advance of sane New Jersey lawyer in high
standing like Ex Chancellor Runyon. I shall arrange with
Mr. Insull for both of is to visit you early in the week.
(S) Edison v Gilliland. Mr. Lewis is con¬
fined to his house with a severe attack of grip, but is
at work on this case. We are going right ahead with
the beginning of taking of testimony, being compelled to
do so by Lippincott's repeated demand to examine him.
We may lose our case if we have to alter our caref .illy ’
preparod plan, but what else can we do? Lippincott will
not wait for us to examine him at the end of the case,
as we originally planned.
(3) Re Glenmont. The title to tne pro¬
perty has been passed to ...rs. Edison and the Insurance
Policies transferred. The deeds are now at the County
Clerk's being fecorded. Tne assignment of the personal
property has been prepared and 'is on my desk ready fbr
execution. It runs from you to Mr. Insull and from him
to Mrs. Edison. I shall take it out to Orange for your
signature when T go there with Mr. Insull early next week,
(4) Re New York Concentrating Works. In
behalf of Mr. patchellor and associates, including my¬
self, I would like to put this matter into shape. But
I am deterred by the stringent clause in the lease to you
from the P. and R. Co., prohibiting you from having any
associates. Had we not better ask them to waive that
prohibition? I shall bring a copy of the Pifth section
of that lease to discuss with you at our proposed vis't
next week.
(5) Re Prescott Pinal Payment on Quadru-
plex patents. Mr. if at e wrote me under date of March 5th
asking whether you could accept a cheque sent by Mr.
Prescott for$2, 494. 39, as "final payemnt". I examined
the matter and wrote you on March 9th for further in¬
formation. I have received no answer to that letter.
Will you kindly reply to my latter of March 9th, so that
I can ge t this matter out of the 'way.
(6) Re Railway Rights in Europe. Mr.
/ Insull wants to know on behalf of the General Company who
owns your Railway Inventions for Europe. I cannot tell.
I would like to have some person in our behalf ask what
tne Cie Continental claim in this regard, Do they claim
to own these inventions themselves? And 7 would like to
know without letting them know that we are making enquiry
’ t. through Mr. Siegel?
Shall i
(7) Re Handford British patent of 1882,
No. 2,336. It is claimed that this patent was assigned
to you, and I have asked Mr. Insull to have a thorough
search made at the Laboratory to find out if that is so.
.If it is, you are to assign it to the Edison and Swan Co.
together with other patents which they have now asked you
to assign . Was this Handford patent assigned to you?
(8) Re Ore Milling Co. Royalty. I have
prepared a Supplemental Agreement between the Ore Milling
/Co. and the Concentrating Works whereby the time for
paying the first years’ guarantee royalty is postponed
a year and the rate of royalty is increased to 25 cents,
I have turned these documents over to Mr. Perry for him*
to have them executed.
(9) Re Assigning Certain Patents to Gener¬
al Co. Certain patents which some claim you ought to as¬
sign to the Lamp Company are to be assigned to the Gener¬
al Co. and tii at Company is to give you an agreement to
protect you from damages. I have drawn this agreement
under instructions from Mr. Insull and shall show you a
copy when we go to Orange. It is important that you should
understand it.
(10) Re Unanswered Questions on Phono¬
graph Matters. ] have already given you opinions on
two questions, but have not had t irne to dispose of the
rest. Those two are (I) That even if you wanted to, you
could not sell tue E.P.Co. Stockjlield as collateral secu¬
rity, at public auction or otherwise, and buy it in your
self, or have it bought in your behalf, and (2) That you
cannot treat your new patents and inventions as your own,
notwithstanding the fact that the expenses have not been
paid. Mr. Hornblower’s opinion on these two questions
agrees with rny own, and was given in both cases without
knowing in advance what my views were. I shall try
to answer your remaining questions at an early date. Those
phonograph matters are voluminous and complicated and so
interwoven, that in order to answer a single question, I
have to wade through very many documents.
(11) Re Phonograph Reorganization. Mr. Rush
sonde word that he will see Mr. Ineull and me on Monday
afternoon, and tnat he wants to have matters settled at
that conference. I assume that Mr. Insuli will urge
the appointment of a Receiver, but owing to my absence
at Syracuse I have not seen him for a day or two.
(12) Re II. A. Co. Electric Railway Contract. Mr.
ovsr with me the final cnanges which he
and Mr Wetmore, representing the N.A.Co., have m°de in
tms contract. Coster says tnat the N.A.Co. is ready
to execute tne document with these ciianges. I shall
explain them to you and Mr. Insuli, anf for convenience
of reierence T will say that the only changes of import¬
ance are on the middle of page 12, also on the middle of
Wnere tiie 'vord "average" is omitted, also on the
I2tn line and 24th line of page 23( see Coster's copy of
2.nd proof which I shall nave with me to show Mr. Insuli)
Please excuse printed signature to avoid delay.
Very truly yo urs,
S. B. Eaton.
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April 11.
Dr. Thos. A. Edison,
Llewellyn Park, Orange , N. J.
My Dear Edison :-
I like occasionally to drop into the Society of
Electrical Engineers when there is an interesting subject under
discussion, and receive so many invitations to join the Society
that I think X shall no longer neglect it. I enclose a blank ap¬
plication and will be greatly obliged if you will head the list of
endorsers, as a reminder of acca^ional pleasant meetings and of
the time when we were arovmd at night digging up the streets to¬
gether.
With compliments and best wishes to yourself arid
kind remembrance to mutual friends, I am,
Very sincerely youi's^^i^”*
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Dear Sir:-
One of our correspondents in Bergen, Norway , Mr. Adolph
Halvorsen, advises us that he is building a new steamer for the
Medeterranean trade and has decided to call her the "Edison" af¬
ter yourself.
We enclose a letter from Mr. Halvorsen which he requested us
to forward to your address.
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EATON a. LEWIS
EQUITABLE BL
Dear Mr Tate:
Re Waterhouse Cable to Mr. Edison. I send a letter to
London by tomorrow's mail but do not send the deeds. We want
something else before we consent to execute the deed as explained
in my said letter.
Very truly yours,
A. 0. Tate, Esq.
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Dr. Thomas A. Edison,
Llewellyn Park, Orange, H. J.
My Dear Sir:-
Pressure of business and a death in a collateral
branch of the family have prevented me from sooner acknowledging
your kindness in signing my application for membership to the
Institute of Electrical Engineers, for which please accept my
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| @eyet, .im SRoimt 9Rai 1887.
Farbenfabrik Vitriolwerk Geyer.
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Vitriolwerk Geyer lagernden Schwefelkiesabbrande
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, Anoei uuorsontio J linen mo itosultato von 8 Pi-ouen, tlieiille filings zur genanon Kenntmss ilor
Verliilltnisse nooli tier Vollsliindigkeit entbelirou, aber dock positiv duruuf himveisen, dnss die Laugerei
jener Produkte ein lukrutives Gcschilft wird.
Ioh habo die Prolicn sowolil clioniiscli unnlysirt ids uiiuli golaiigt, und 'werden Sio sioli wundeni
tiber die Verschiedonlieit dor Resultnte. Es ist nttmlich in amor Probe l Gramm Silber pro 100 Kilo mis-
geluugt, es sind aber 6,4 Gr.dnrin. Der Grand des goringon Aiisbringens liegt unstreitig in deni sen gi-
rmgen Sclnvefelgehnit des Materials; denn man sah beim. ItBstoii aucli liiclit die Spur Schwefel irorbreiiuen.
Die in denProben vorfliullichen Scliwefelgehalte werden (lurch soliwefelsanre Sake hervorgebraelit, es liabon
aber dieselben nuf LBslichiiiuehen des botrelfenden Motalles gar keinou Einfluss, simdern bier wirkt mir
der Schwefel, der ills soldier an Metall gebnnden. ist.' Ill alien den Pinball. wo sieli viel Sillier ausgelmigt
hat, brannte anch dor Scliwefol sichtlidi, und wenii os als ein grosser Vortheil anzusehc-ii ist, dass das
Material sehr wenig Schwefel hat, so mOsste man dooli beim Hosten schwefollialtigeru Moterialien zilsetzoa,
welches die Sadie veithenoru wilrde, wonn solche Materia lion 11'idit billig zu boaclinffen wilren.
Das vortrefflidisto was liier eintreten kiSnute, wilrn, wenn in der Umgegend Brando vorkonirnen,
welclio zuviol Schwefel enthalton, 11111 ziun ItBsten geeignet zu sein, und wird sieli dies Material in den
Breitonbrminer Biiinden finden, wenigsten naeli frflheren Prolan zu urtlieilen. fell werde duritlw Ver-
sticlie nnstellen, wie sieli das Material miter Zusatz von Scliwefelkies beim RBsleu verhiilt und li.nen die
Kesnltato nuttheilen. Sie worden sclion aus den Proben erselien, dass die liBclisten Silbergehalte crzicll
smd, Wo der meiste Schwefel vorhanden war und wciilen bci weitorem Zusatz bis zu 2,6—3"/, die Uesul-
tato nocli viol grosser misfallon, als die besten miter diesen Prcben. Die tins dem Material erzielten
Purple Ore (Eisenstein) ergaben allerdmgs zioinlich bedeutende Kiickstlinde, und ist der Eisengebalt
nur 111 tier emeu Probo nnf 41,49% hernbgesunken, welches gegeniiber dein Rilckstanil, von 36, 2,,/11 wolil
zu wenig sein wilrde, aber dor Durclischnitt wird sieli doeli aucli ziemlieli gilnstig lierausstellon in Betreff
dos Eisengehaltes. Sollten Sie iibor sonstigo Verhilltnisse nocli Auskunlt wilnschen, z. B. wilre der Zinlnm-
halt der Materialien jedonfalls wescntlicli, indem das Zinkoxyd als die stiirkste Metallbasis beim RBsten
von grossen Einfluss ist, so bitto niicli darauf aufmerksiim niuchen zu wollen. Mun kBnnle dieses allor-
““’S® nuo“ spitter;\dn jedocli, olie man die Sadie anfiingt nocli viele Proben gemuolit werden mlisseu 11111
die Mischungsverlillltnisso dor verachiedenen-Substanzen festzustellen.
Die Resultnte sind
Chemisehe Analyse: tiiiigenrcsultatc :
A. oben. Silber 12 Gramm
Blei 0,87%
Kupfer 0,16%
Schwefel 0,73%
A. nnten. Silber 12 Gramm
Blei 0,69%
Kupfer 0,12%
_ Schwefel 0,09"/,,
B. Sttd. Silbi'r 8 Gramm
Blei 0,6 %
— . Rilckstand 32,3%
Silber 2,6 Gramm
(Puiple Ore) Eisen 47,72 »/„
B. Nord. Silber 14 Gramm-
Blei 1,47%
Kupfer 0,38%
_ • Schwefel ^16°/
Bloi 0,6%
Knpfer 0,12%
Schwefel 1,20%
0. oben Silbei 6,6 Gramm
Blei 0,9%
Kupfer 0,2 %
_ Schwefel 0,85 %
0. unten. Silber G,4 Gramm
Blei . 0,43 11 /o
Kupfer 0,2%
_ _ Schwefel' 0,82%
D. oben. Silber 8 Gramm
Blei 1,38 «/»
Kupfer 0,08 °/°
Schwefel 0,92 °/»
Silber 7,4 Gramm
; Eisen 46,1 %
'. Silber 1,0 Gramm
Eisen 49,36 %
Rilckstand 24,2 %
Silber 1,6 Gramm
. Eisen 60,7 %
Eisen 44,4 °/0
Rilckstand 31,8%
, , Me angegebeuen Silbergehalte b'eziehen sieli aUe nuf lOO Kilo. Das Purple Ore rbnrUsentirt den
nnch der Laugerei zur Eisengewinnung kommenden . hsenstein. Das Gold liess sieli niebt i„ iiB 4T 1 6
wilgen, wiewolil der Goldgeln.lt ziemlich gleich.nllssig sein wird. In dem d rch b ” m "1,0U Pr0^ln
ber stellt sieli derselbe auf 121 Gramm pro 100 Kilo Silber Dio chemisehe A , Ug°f° Sow°,menBn Sll‘
.C.^>be“ *** n"ch’ iml°m ai° Luiwinob?1, zn 'hingo auflmlten «mf
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kies auf a«einde3«feSohat n S'?"*** Tt" eegeb°n’ Dio Proben wurt,°" durcl. Zu
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Es ergaben sioh folgende Eesultate:
P. Durchschnitt.
Silber ausgolaugt 7,90 Gramm
Kupfer 0,15 “/.
Blei 0,02 7°
: Sohwefel 1,46
Purple Ore (Eisen) 47,0 •/
Jtilokstand . . 30,0 %
Silber ausgelaugt 6,66 Gramm
Kupfer 0,12 “/„
Blei 1,20%
Sohwefel 1,17 •/
Purple Ore (Eisen) 40,20 “/.
_ _ _ Itttckstond 37,3 °/0’
Silber ausgelaugt 7,d~Griu7im
Kupfer 0,18“/0
Blei 1,06“/.
• Sohwefel 0,82“/.
Purple Ore (Eisen) 40,8
" ’ ' 36,2 “/„
” Befsten (2“/0Schwefel) Silber uusgelaiigt 8,0 G:
Kupfer 0,18“/,,
Blei 0,96“/,,
Sohwefel 0,80 •/
, Purple Ore (Eisen) 446“/„
Eflckstaud ......
E. Slid. Stuffen. (2 »/o Sohwefel) Silber nnsgehiugt 7,5 Gramm"
Kupfer 0,2 %
Blei 1,5%
. . Sohwefel 1,28 "/„
. Purple Ore (Eisen) ' 46,00 »/„
~ _ _ Ettckstand 31,0 %
E. sad. (2 % Sohwefel) . ^ Silbm^usgeiau^SbO Grubmr
Kupfer 0,18 •/.
Blei
P. StuSen (2“/0 Sohwefel)
Sohwefel 0,80 %
Purple Ore (Eisen) 48,6 o /„
Ettckstand 27,2 “/,
Silber ausgelaugt G.O Gninini
Kupfer 0,10 •/„
Blei 0.86 %
Scbwefel 0^00 ”/,
Purple Ore (Eisen) 37,60 %
--- .... _ Ettckstand 42,20 “/„
E. Nord (3% Sohwefel) Silber nusgelougt 8,16 "Grumin
Kupfer 0,21 %
Blei 1,06 %
Sohwefel 1,80 %
Purple Ore (Eisen) 46,00
_ Ettckstand ' 31,40%
Silber ausgeluugOrs Gramm
G. oben (2 % Schwe(bl)
Kupfer
Blei
, F. Fein. (2 »/0 Sohwefel)
Sohwefel
Purple Ore (Eisen) -
Ettckstand
0,12 „
0,08 •/
1 7«
Silber ausgelaugt 6,6' Gramm-
Kupfer 0,16 “/„
Sohwefel 0^03 %
Purplo Ore (Eisen) 40,20%
_ _ _ Ettckstand 38,40 %
i. StulTen unten (3 7» Schwofel)]Silber aus^kh^t'liXGmm,
fefOT ?«16%
.Sohwefel
Purple Ore /Eison) '
illiickstand
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'Kupfer 0,21 Vn '
Blei 1,20"/. .. ' .
Schwofol ' 0,96 %
. Purple Ore (Eisen). 48,20.% .
- - - - - - - - - ■ ■ Bflofcstand 26,80% . *
G. fem unten (2% Sohwefel) Silber^d^Igt V.b (iramm ' . - -
Kupfer 0,16% . ,
Blei. 0,89%";
Scliwefel • 1,23 % ’ '
Purple Ore (Eisen) 44,20 %
- — - !- . Biickstnud 3B;10% ' :
Sfc. fein oben (2% Scliwefel) . Silbor "ausgeiuugt 6,8 Gramm ' -
. . Kupfer 0,11 %
. Blei 0,79%
: Scliwefel' 0,80%
Purple' Ore (Eisen) 42,30%
- - - Bookstand 3RRn« /,
G- ““ten: (2%^R-etel) Silber ausgeiuugt 6,4 Gramm - ’ - -
• . Kupfer 0,2%
Blei . 0,96%
Scliwefel 1,26 %
Purple Oro (Eisen) 40,4 %
— - — - ; — _ _ Bflckstnnd 37,6%
E- Bord Stuffen (2% Scliwefel) Silbor nusgolaugt 6,5 Gramm ~ - ' -
Kupfer 0,13%.
Blei., : 0,93%
Scliwefel' 1 18 %
Purple Ore (Eisen) 43,00 %
- - - — ^ „. _ - - ______ ■' Biicksland 34;80 %
G. Stuffen oben (2% Schwefol) Silber misgoluugt 6,63 GmmlT -
Kupfer . 0,16 %
Blei .. 0,85%
Scliwefel- ' 0,73 %
Purple Ore (Eisen) 39,60 -«/
Kilekstand 39,80%'.
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My dear Mr Edison,
2Hh June 1391
I received a letter from you through your Secretary
On March 11th on the subject of the phonograph for which many t hanks -
Your phonograph has been a. great amusement here and I am only anxious
to be able to obtain one of the newer pattern I wr#e jtou about >- q0
you think that the Phonograph Ccmpany would let we ha,ve one? I he
present cylinders ate V0ry brittle, they break Without reason Txm
simply ehange of wither; the one that Cutting sent me from New yn^
arrived brbken a? also did mine to him although they were very cateUfe-
ny packed for post - T^s is a veyy unfortunate .objection to this
large diameter of cylinder and I expect that 'the smaller and longer
cylinders are very much less brittle - Why they do . not bring out the
Phonograph Company in England 1 cannot understand - It would certainly
succeed .but nothing is being done - Perhaps you will find time to
dictate me a line aS to. wither one of these .new machines was obtain*
j*blef- I would return the present one if X could get the new one in
place*
i he&r ^hofa cutting that yoUT irdn Separator it Working splendidly
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which I am very glad to hear - You have, I Suppose , completely
abandoned Eleetr^Aty in favour of Mining operations ? x’ato occupied
in -working a, ‘Company for the electric lighting of the City of Loiidon
and have Men much exercised as to whether we should, ad ppt covert xijujjbs r" '
current M iiternatin^ - We have decided on (the latter.it being
perfectly impost ibie^t&the City, to find sites for central Station
on the continuous current principle, or to obtain sufficient', rodm in
the streets tp lay the conduits - We are using ponpentric mains and
2000 volts and converting stations under the' control of the Company in
different parts of the City, and feeding from thence on to a three wire
system - X hope that this plan Will succeed as it seems to- me the
only one by means bf which we dan get our -cables laid at all,.
Hoping you are well, 1
Believe jne,;
Yours, veiy tmsiy
Thomas A Edi$6n Esq, Orange , New York.
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TRADING FIRM
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REPRESENTATIVES FOR RUSSIA OF:
Fairbanks & Cs, H. Disston & Sons,
W. i 8. Omiglas, Eclipse Wind Engine C".
WYCKOFF, SEAMANS Si BENEDICT,
Jmporters of Machinery, Hardware &c.
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July 4/16
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In reply to your favor of
Antwortlich Ihres Geelirten vom
A. EDISON Eeq.
Orange . N. J.
My dear Sir;-
The ruaaian papers report,
that you intend to reviait Europe in August * that you will also go
to Petersburg , where you inteixl to stay a week.
I an exceedingly anxious to knoY/ whethor these rumours are yioIIx&ki
fbunded h if, as I do hope ; they are, permit tee to remind you of
the intention you expressedfwhen I had the great pleasure of seeing
you, )to visit the Ural, when next going to Europe.
Your superior knowledge of the geography of the country, in
vhich I have been living fbr so long, is fresh in my memory,
ybu twill, therefore, easily understand why r I would be greatly dis¬
appointed if you should not be able to carry out your fbxmer inten¬
tion, to some extent anyhow. I mean to say, that if your time will
„.A- P- P- Pot
Thomas A. Edison Esq. #S,
not permit you to go as far as you then intended, I do sinoer
ly hope to have the pleasure of showing you the most interesting
of all cities of Russia, her ancient capital, in which I liv^ *
the most interesting of all fairs ,*0 fair at Nijni Novgorod.
The first is a comfortable nights journey from Petersburg * the
second, a ditto from Moscow •
You may rest assured, that I will gladly do all in my power
to make your stay in Russia as agroeablo for you as possible * I
would feel exceedingly. obligedif you could drop me a card, Btating
when you expect to touch Russia.
In anticipation of a fevorable roply I beg to rozrain
-July :
Your loan of Seventy-five Thousand Dollars
with the U. S. Trust Company must be attended to by the 25th of
this month. Pern; has interrogated than, and they are willing to
re^new it for six months at 3ix per cent, or they will renew for
four months at 5 l/2X« It is not desirable to renew the note for
four months, because that will make it fall due in November, which
considering your present obligations would be most inconvenient.
Shall I tell Perry to arrange for the six months renewal? If so,
just_mark 0. K. on this ^letter and send it back to me.
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Yours very truly,
Thomag A. Edison, Esq.,
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EDISON BUILDING }
^/l?CACr24cw/(y_ J.uly_20-,-1891'.
Thomas A, Edison,' Esq,,
Orange, New Jersey,
Dear Sir: j
Referring to your favor of the' 14th. inst . , in which you
enclosed a copy of an advertisement bj the Electro -Chemical Com¬
pany of this City, which contained an ! unauthorized use of your
name, I beg to state that I wrote a sharp letter to the above named
Company, calling their attention to/the fact* and threatening to
bring an action for damages for an J illegal use of your name,
I have received a letter from the Electro-Chemical Com¬
pany promising that they will not /make any further use of your name
in connection with their business/.
Trusting this will be satisfactory I remain.
I
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E.
Dear Mr. Edison: N°W Y°Tk °ity’ July 30,189^ . /
havf instructedRmeI'toagonaheadeandTrotPate?t<1,it ^ati°n^o^ittee
Perkins Lamp Factory at Hartford 8R -n-*unction against the
Lanp pactorj of thPs St? 2m aeainst the 23rd Street
ting companies of this City^ proSy the illumina
Driscoll and Stleringer are collect ? I touSt Morris ComPany.
be used in these proceedings But th» t f°r the afr ida'r its to
are away on vacation. Wallace is i£ n!!dT !ind a11 the lawy9rs
is in Europe. Lowrey has gone to th^ f°r & m°nth’ Seward
Riber for six weeks. XerTeZls^Zn'V™'* °n the Detroit
wilderness. The result is tw ? ° "f X)W for a m°nth in the
get ready for the above proceed^ 8h^1 have to stay here» and
as our lawyers and ~ t0 b9 aa -on
M.y, th. .Sat S 1uZ*T.rLa Up *hs MM1° ■*
in a bill for $20,000 for his argument ®b®ean* He how sends
Patent Litigation Committee JaTkfTu over Lt e*ceaBiv*- ^
Poned final decision until to^orraw. JXe 2 »"8 **.««* P°«t-
Paymg it, at any rate that is the L« f Davls was in favor of
are rather opposed to it. We hwTL h® eave* and Merest
$18,000 in the Filament Case alSnl! itZlZ'Z ^ L°Wr8y °Vei<
rageous. “When we win +v>» aoo^ * think the chaise is out~
but not now. 0388 °n appeal* we can pay him liberally,
Patience and go?d naturfon w part howevef1* thRt very pui*°8°*
Paying my bill after all. But^T may reHuIt in their
aJ-i. But I must c cnf ess it makes me mad.
about, but you Sirmnanfc^arlTJft®8, 1 °l!?ht to 888 yoa
Sincerely yours.
Liverpool Overhead Railway. TJa^rams^ traction. Liven
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The Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of New .York.
Executive Office, 16-18 Broad St.
J!ew York, September 11th, 1891.
Bioinas A. Edison, Esq
Orange, H. J
Dear .Mr. Edison •
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Mr. De -Witt J.. Seligman, Editor of the • Epoch,” a weekly
\ &sul^al $£ hl^h Standing in this city which has boon very friendly
^.ispn interests, sends word to me that he is especially
>; ««#*»«** 'that -| , representative of his paper should have an intor-
, view«tth you oh, the possibilities of the phonograph. I do not
Often inmxrit myself to encourage or transmit requests of this sort,
bht «t» pm»snt oase seem^ to be one in which it may bo proper for
«<! to break the rule. If, you care to moke an appointment for any
date after Monday next, you might^diroct word sent to Mr. George
..^’Hanson, ArbUckle Gilding, Brooklyn, who is Mr. Sell man' a
#pro«entative for this purpose.
• ,*• _ ' I am pleased to hear through Insull that you were satis-
h«d Witti the lino of policy as to the sale of lamps to rival
•.^i^hating companies, outlined in the resolutions submitted to
This letter needs no reply from yourself to me.
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Very truly yours.
O.o. a l ovVbu
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New York City, September 12, 1891.
Dear Mr. Edison:-
I beg to submit the following.:
(1) Your objection to signing the proof of claim
against Lippincott's assignee, for the promissory note, is
| not well taken. It creates no cloud on the title. You can
|| do with the note and the security just tfiat you want, the
ijsame as if you had never proved the claim. The proper thing
lifor you to do is to execute the document I sent you, relating
"to the note, in my opinion.
(2) Touching the proof of claim for $82,500, it is
true as you say that the amount is due from the N. A. P. Co.
;|But Lippincott was also a party, along with the N. A. P. Co.,
[i to the agreement of August 1st, 1888. It will not hurt your
;! claim against the N. A. P. Co, to make this proof of claim
: against Lippincott. My usual rule in cases of assignments,
j| is to put in every possible claim you can think of, and then
j[ let the assignee strike them out if he wants to. It does not
hurt you to make the claim, and it is good tactics to do it.
(3) Please take my word for it that the esecution
Ij of these three proofs of claim will not in any way at all
| alter your rights against others, or cloud the sale of the
ijnote. The claims must be filed by Tuesday at latest, so
| kindly swear to them to-day and send them to me by bearer,
I; if you conclude to do so. Bush thinks that Lippincott's
| Estate will pay in full, if you and Insull take hold of the
;|N. A. P. Co. For that reason and on general principles, you
; ought to prove every possible claim, especially when it does
"not prevent you from making claims against others for the
|| same thing.
(4) Enclosed please find a form of assignment sub-
jjmitted by the E. U. P. Co. I have made some pencil inter lin-
lieations. The form now seems tome to be all right. The
|| theory is that you now assign the entire pending application
|j of Case No. 96 to the E. U. P. Co. , and that they now write
you a letter promising that when the application is allowed,
they will execute this form of agreement, thereby assigning
ij back to you "dolls, toys, toy figures and clocks." Those are
ij the exact words used in Sec. 1, Agreement March 11, 1890,
j between you and the E. U. P. Co., where your rights are re-
|j served. Is this form satisfactory to you? If so please
!j initial it and return it to me by bearer.
(5) You may be interested to see the resulution
I here enclosed, marked A. B. Please destroy after reading.
| I sent it to Mr. Marcus to-day for the minutes. Mr. Villard
jj tells me that the transaction is entirely satisfactory tp
lihim, and that he told you all about it on Thursday.
(6) The Pat. Lit. Can. have rejected Lowrey's bill
absolutely. They say that they will not pay it even if he
withdraws from the case. Mr. Wright is particularly opposed
to paying it. You may remember that I told you about it at
Long Beach. I met Lowrey at a big dinner givei to Mr. Just¬
ice Field at Villard's country place last ni$rt. I told
Lowrey what the Committee had decided, and advised him to
ji withdraw the bill and accept whatever the Committee choose
jto pay him. He took my advice, and instructed me to say that
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' . . J7)d fff.havo commenced the injunction proceedings
■ against the Perkins Lamp Co. at Hartford. The papers are all
printed in a pamphlet, and served. We shall serve similar
papers next Tuesday on the Mount Morris Illuminating Co. of
this city and on the 23rd St. Lamp factory. Driscoll and I
got up these papers during August. He broke down and is now
laid up in bed. But Dyer is back and lias helped me.
(8) Of course Insull told you that Bush consents
to turn the N. A. P. Co. over to you. Bush said he must see
Ir, Knox, Lippincott s Pittsburgh lav/yer, before formally
assenting. Knox is about to return from Europe. Bush is
at Newport, but they will both meet here in a week or two
when I hope to be able to report further progress. The plan
includes the settlement of the claim of the Works by arbi-
tration# .
r , , . 1 aslfed Vi I lard last night v/hy he thought the
Genera1 Co. s stock was now going up on the market. He said
that he thought that the people at the corner intended to
declare an extra dividend of ten per cent, on the General
Co. s stock and use a million and a half of the Light Co.'s
securities to do it.
„ I ?* /lease return by bearer the three proofs of claim
executed and sworn to by you if you see fit; also return the
| enclosed form of assignment from the E. U, p. c0. with your
approval initialed on it. y
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SEP 1 4 1891
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EpiSON GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
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My d ear Bdison:-
I received a letter from J. r! a while ago reminding
of an old deal v/hich I hai not forgotten. I enclose New York
Exchange for §100.00 and will send along tin balanc e as soon s
!al0V/ 'r had’ f°r a year or so> a Aguiar Monkey and Parrot
else you would have liear d fPom me before.
Thanking you for past favors, I remain,
Sine erely your s,
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EDISON ELECTRIC LICHT COMPANY
EDISON BUILDING) BROAD STREET
Cj ^ ° M'
September 28th, 1891.
KECE IV*
Please do not forget to let me knows-on. Wednesday, next what
day and hour it will suit you to meet Goneral Grubb, his 'friends, end
myself. Gen. , Grubb sails on. the 8th for his post ini; Spain, and he is
very anxious to meet you before he returns, and theii y.au Know if we
fail to raise the money in Newark he will get, it for us in London.
Prof. Gildersieevo, of the JohnstHopkins University, Balti¬
more, Md., who has been for several months in Germany, informs me that
14 is a common expression in Germany, when a fellow has no genius or
brains to say that is "no Edison*.
Hoping you will not forget this appointment, as it is very
important to me, I remain
Thomas A. Edison Esq.,
Edison Laboratory,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
Yours truly,
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Dear tfr.Fldison: Ans ^
I was very glad to see in the II. y. World the n>tel(ti-orl ,
your new method oi‘ moving electric cars. As President A the" Pro v.^.
Telephone Co.,1 have been resisting the overhead trolley for the
past year. I do hope you will evolve - and of course you will - **
that which will prove to be the survival of the fittest.
I have often thought of that picturesque group at the Maples-
wood Hotel, out of which you so judiciously took your pick. I wonder
if your good wife knows that Mr. Me Gilvray is dead. He was a fine
fellow, and is much mourned,
I expect to take a loafing trip to Mew York in the course of
a few weeks, for the first time in six months; can I get a sight of
you if I run over to Jersey? I hope your deafness does not increase
as mine does. Dear .dear, what a misfortune; But we must bear ifi?
we don't grin” ^
I have been trying to do a little inventing myself lately,
have been working on ball-bearings for about two years.Have taken
out several patents, and have about as many applications pending"?"
have reason to believe I have got a pretty good thing, as I have ha
one running at Attleboro, Mass. .showing a saving in power over the
lubricated bearing of 7 5%. My invention consists in an improved
method of using the balls. I will have a printed description be¬
fore long, which I will send to you. I have made several types, but
have now settled down on one as the best. It seems to me, and to
those who have seen it, as very applicable to the dynamo. I have had
requests from three electric companies, one of which asked me to
concede to them the exclusive use for that purpose. This I have
declined to do, however, having felt that not only on account of
auld acquaintance, but your eminence, as well, you ought to have the
opportunity of first producing it in that connection if you cotton
to it. I am having a little model made, and if it is done by the
time I go to N.Y. I will take it on with me. You may have the cu¬
riosity to see it if nothing more.
V/hat a pity the people who bought the phonograph have made
such a botch of it. That is they have around here at any rate.
I am always glad to learn of your continued successes. But
don't kill yourself. Devote plenty of time to wife and babies. Thus
your days will be long in the land. So mote it be.
Sincerely Yours,
a LEWIS
44 EDISON BUILDING)
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gives Ins time day and night and at all seasons of the year to the service
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nractice A c,°,nsultatlons aad b' ‘he general supervision of a large
•ind otdehtS°Ur Wyer’'Vith “cellent prompt to decide
and quick to act, he possesses rare qualifications which make him at
once a trusted legal adviser and a valuable business associate
Mr- Eat°a ,s a member of the Bar Association and the Law Insti-
r, and ,belo”gs to tile Union, University, Lawyers’, Players’ and
dubTin ti S’ f° the ne"’ly 0rganii!ed Metropolitan Club, and to several
clubs other places, including the Raleigh Club of London.
. . . WM. 13. riOKNIU.OWEli,
October 20, I89l.
Re speq-fcfully fo warded to Mr. Edison for his files.
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Private Secretary.
Hornblower, Byrne STaylor,
October 14th,1891.
S.B.Eaton, Esq.,
44 Broad St., New Yoik City.
■ Dear Sir:-
We beg to acknowledge receipt of your le tter of the
14th,enc losing check on the German National Bank of New York, to
,?our order for $150, in payment of our bill of services rendered
-"'to Ml*-Edison. We send you herewith receipt for sans, and thank
you for your trouble in the matter.
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The bottom part of the second page of this letter
will amuse pou.
The writer was a class-mate of mine at Yale, He
is now a Doctor of Divinity and a Professor in the Andover Seminary
He is begging money for the Andover Phillips Academy.
He wrote me for a donation, and askod me to try to
yet one from you. I replied that as for myself, I was already
giving away too much for my means, and that as for you, What one
of my duties was to keep beggars away from you, for you were over -
run with them. Tnis is his return letter.
Kindly return after reading.
Very truly yours,
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EDISON BUILDING, BROAD STREET
November 19th, 1891,
Major S, B, Eaton,
Edison Building,
Eraod Street, New York City.
My Dear Major Eaton: —
I have your letter of the 19th instant
advising me that you have settled your bill against the Edison
United Phonograph Company. I am very glad indeed to learn
that this matter has been cleared up. I think that in malting this
sacrifice, you conserved your own and Mr. Edison’s best interests.
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Dear Mr. Inoull:
The total bill of Eaton & Low 1b for
ing tlio Edison United Phonograph Company was
Professional Services
Cash Disbursements , about
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■mu - *■ * . Ji»u*P*Co* v ill not pay but a portion of those b ilia
•wo0^V?n^ia 0ne7lialf tho disbursements ; the other §400 r/o
propose to charge in equal ^ares to Mr. Edison and E.P.V/Orks.
other As on account' of services. The
-?£' Lp^'cSsS fi° in equal oha1*8 t° Mr. Edison and
V nr'n Hi® “ount 0lf ^eable to E.P.viorko as above, would be'
•Thev' 1 Otmpgny l»a never yet paid us a penny for sorvicos.
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j 1 or. Th0 clmfs° t0 Mr> Edison pursuant to the above will also
II bo v1,9j0 . But it is covered by Mr. Edison’ s Salary Contract with
If m0‘ Consequently, wo have no claim against hin” ■Wllh
ThiS upshot of the abo've matter is' that the E.U.P.Co rim-*,
about one-half of our bill; we shall charge one -qSr ter of Sc
' M^mSon^ «*• Ot tor one -quarter is covered* by
*iir * v/ii5oa out in «**
• rcthri T ®f ,00TB? 1 f® tti6QPP°intpd in the way the E.U.P.Co. lias
• °kd •fm08t incessantly for months, and by forcing "
vahrshiJ- *??***>* 0n the 1»000 ^c^inos, rendered the E.U.P.Co.
JS t0 f°minS «* the CoJ^
■nSaJw.1 »?. ?y rea80n ’i® ins eo being that it is
against wi . Edison s interests for me- to have any altercation with
any of his companies. Hence I submit to what > SjSTt / "
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Dear Mr . Edison: -
Will yua uc in Mio cii; jviunaay nex^jiHoveiiiDer
30th?If so, or if you can make it convenient to be here, I
want to ask a favor. You are a highly esteemed member of
the Press Club of Nev; York, and we should like very much
to have you present at the election that day, and I should
personally esteem it quite an honor to have you vote the
enclosed ticket. There is quite a warm fight of course
as there always is, and I dont know whether I will be
elected as Eirst-Vice-Fresident or not - in fact, do not
care very much, but, it would be a source of. much gratifi¬
cation to me to have you come around dnd cast yow lots.
The polls are open from/® A.M. to 7 P.M. and
in m«U in and 8rend. t£e afternoon and evening
ditto' Jihrk,it*W*uld eiv® “t^ch Pleasure to have -ou’
dine, with me at.^the Hotel Imperial .that evening.
#;mo . , I,kti ow ^ou are very busy, of course, but two or
three hours away from your fascinating laboratory arh
rubbing up against a lot of newspaper boys, would not do
you+ «ny harm - in fact, think it will be a’ benefit to
°n vu°h « » «»■*-
Very sincerely yoir.s
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1891. Edison, T.A. - Articles (D-91-04)
This folder contains correspondence requesting Edison to write articles;
correspondence relating to articles about Edison or his inventions; and letters
from journalists seeking to interview Edison.
Approximately 70 percent of the documents have been filmed. The
following categories of documents have not been filmed: routine requests
from journalists with no reply; routine correspondence relating to interview
arrangements; letters of transmittal and acknowledgement; duplicate copies of
selected items.
Related material can be found in D-91-43 (Phonograph - General).
Th&mas A. Edison Esq.
'Enclosed please find a copy of the
Christmas number gf the ‘•Examiner” containing the predictions of
celebrated men for the y^ar 1891.
1 beg you wiivaccept my thanks for your courteous response
to the importunities of pur correspondent.
Yours Sincerely,
Heni'E • Romeifee’s . Press . puttings.
no eieTh avenge, new yqrk.
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Washington, D. C.
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Electrical Engineer.
A Weekly Review of Theoretical ami Applied Electricity.
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7HU SOIBNTIPIO PUBLISHING COMPANY.
if8»mry ...ssthj, j89
Thomas A. ftiism, Bsq.g
Oraagef, N. J.
Deai? sir:
I am making- a collection of portraits and brief bio¬
graphies of men prominently connected with the mining and met¬
allurgical industries and would be greatly obliged if you would
sand me a portrait of yourself (cabinet size- if you have it) putt¬
ing your autograph below your portrait, and if you will also
give me with it a brief biographical sketch which you can
state the chief enterprises you have 'been connected with or in¬
terested in.
It is proper that there should be some collection of
those who in ona way and another have contributed to the devel¬
opment of our great mineral industries and 'I an endeavoring to
make this collection in such a manner that it will hereafter be
of value.
Hoping you will kindly favor me with your portraitand
biographical sketch, I remain.
New York, Feb. 14th, 1891.
Mr Thomas A. Edison,
Orange, New Jersey.
Dear sir,-
1 have the eng/aving forwarded by your Secretaiy
and have to thank you for complying with my request. The engraving
has been forwarded to the maga/ine and a cut will be made from it to
appear in the April number, as stated in my communication of a few
days ago.
Yours respectfully,
jgf Jr/
[ENCLOSURE]
Dear Sir:
Have you seen the February number of the Street
Railway Review? We inclose herewith a table of con¬
tents, which will suggest the range of topics discussed.
We believe you would find it profitable to place a copy
each month in the hands of your various foremen, and that
the investment would be a most satisfactory one.
We will join you in this, and on receipt of Five Dollars
will mail six copies one year, to such officers, directors, or
employees, of your company as you may name.
THIS OFFER IS ONLY TEMPORARY.
If you have not seen a copy send for sample which will
be mailed free.
STREET RAILWAY REVIEW,
334 Dearborn St., Chicago.
CONTENTS.
PORTRAIT, II. II. LITTELL.
Editorial Notes .
National Electric Light Association .
Stop at Street Intersections Only .
The No Seat-No Faro Fnlncy .
The Street Railway a Progressive Institution .
A California Calamity .
A Now Cincinnati Line .
Tho Fcstivo Nowshoy .
Out of Town .
Tho Only Electric Lino in Ireland .
Tho Schuylkill Electric Railway .
Machined Whools for Street Railway Sorvico .
Tho Ulna Register . .
Aluminum Trolley Wheel .
Oenett Air Drako for Cable and Electric Cars . .
Street Railway Law . . . .
Uygonie and Veterinary . . .
A Woll Known Mnnngor . .
Tho Other Sldo . .
Tito Tramway Rail ro.’s System .
Tho Open Carotte .
An Object Lesson .
A Now Clutch Pulley .
Now Trolley Wire Clamp .
A Shoo and Stocking Street Car .
World’s Fair Eloctrlclan-J. P. Uarrott.
Cicero and Proviso Electric Co .
Echoes From tho Trndo .
P. T. Bnrnura on tho Electric System...
Poraonals .
Highly nonored .
Johnson-Hathaway .
Boston Letter. .
Street Car Patonts .
Caught on tho Hush Trip .
Turned Up by The Sweeper .
Directory of Street Railways .
Electric Railways of North Amcrlcn ...
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The: Phonogram,
tfhe Official Organ of the Phonograph Companies of the ifnited states.
A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE,
! *' Room 87, Pulitzer Building,
V. H. MCRAE,
Mr. A. 0. Tate,
Edison Laboratory,
Orange, N, J.
My Dear sir: -
I take pleasure in forwarding you by this mail, six co¬
pies of. the Phonogram, five of which are for Mr. Edison and one for
yourself.
I have read with much interest the different accounts of Mr.
Edison’s latest invention, The Kinetograph, and write to ask if you
cannot obtain for the Phonogram cuts illustrative of this new Electri¬
cal wonder.
I am especially anxious to publish somewhat in advance of
other journals, all matters connected with Mr. Edison’s interests, be¬
cause the magazine is so closely identified with him, and I feel so
gratefully appreciative of his many acts of kindness.
Trusting the Phonogram will reaoh you safely, && remain,
*5 G Very truly yours,
SS8SS&
Manager.
Electrical Engineer.
A Weekly Review of Theoretical and Applied Electricity.
Edited by T. Commerforp Martin Joseph Wetzler.
New York, 150 Broadway, . June. 19, 1891..
Mr, Thomas A. Edison,
Llewellyn Park,
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Dear Sir:
At the suggestion of Mr. Margin T take the liberty of
balling your attention to the enclosed clipping from The Electrical
Engineer of June 17th, containing an article by myself.
Very truly yours ,
[ENCLOSURE]
THE ELECTRIC
PfirKt,- ‘ftrjy.d?' r. j
GEORGE M. PHELPS, President.
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tfea Electrical Engineer. ^
Thomas A. Edison,
Llewellyn Park,
[INCORPORATED ]
A Weekly Review of Theoretical and Applied Electricity.
Edited by T. Commerford Martin «m Joseph Wetzler.
New York, 150 Broadway, . June . 24, . 1891.-, : i8ij
‘Lc/yy
I have pleasure in handing you herewith. a letter this
d4y received from Mr, Prank Harrison, together with an extra press
copy of my reply to. same*
Kindly return this letter for our files. I have no objection
to your making copy of it if you so desire.
Very truly yours,
[ENCLOSURE]
Mr„ Frank
Mews,,
j Dear Sire j
i < i ■ I I have yours o i the M&6 and ro;<irihs. Vo
(pioxfc fro/n my article An fha EloairAnal Engineer*
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fai,lnt\gf \^s mao.,,
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I »rticie-^0ttt t*oc collapse and failure of .the phono-
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JOSEPH WETZCER, SlcuiTUr
Electrionflnsjnecr. ■
Electrical Engineer.
[INCORPORATED ]
A Weekly Review of Theoretical and Applied Electricity.
New York, 150 Broadway, . July. .1, 1891,
A. 0. Tate, C ^ <Z <-
Llewellyn Park, ^
Orange, N. J,
Dear Sir:
//
I enclose herewith two letters received this morning
from Prank Harrison which are truly remarkable comnunications and
might be said to be positively unique* I regret now having wasted
*o much powder on the man-he must.be crazy. X also enclose here-
press copy of my reply to hi. voluminous correspond^
Very truly yours,
P« S. You may keep his letters if you wish.
with an extra
ence.
Treasurer arid
Business Manager.
[ENCLOSURE]
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[ENCLOSURE]
1, 1891,
Mass,
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Electrical Engineer.
A IFeehly Review of Theoretical and Applied Electricity.
Edited by T. Commerford Martin «»„ Joseph Wetzler.
New York, 150 Broadway, . Auglist.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
Iileirllyn Park, Orange , N. J,
Dear Sir!
I enclose herewith another rambling IrttS^fran Mr.
Prank Harrison toother with an extra press copy of my reply
thereto. j
I shall pay no more' attention to this remark stole corres¬
pondent to whom the words ■ journalism" and "cupidity ’seem to be
[ATTACHMENT]
FRANK HARRISON'S
SHQRJ-HAfjp
Mr. Frank R. Colvin,
NEW YORK
RECEIVED
Melrose, Mass. August 15th. lgffi.
Dear Sir:-
I have written Mr. Thomas R. Lombard to day
that if the Phonograph people would buy a sufficient num¬
ber of the October number of my, Magazine, at Five Dollars
per 100 I would publish your article in it. That is the
best article that has been written on the Phonograph since
Mr. Edison improved it. The October number, being the first
one published from Boston, wijJl be a SPECIAL NUMBER of
about 30.000 eopiesjit will. contain SPECIAL artioles.be
printed on better paper, better ink, and -in every way im¬
proved.
Since our correspondence of a few weeks ago, I have
critically examined the P.and find that as you state ,dt is
an . improved machine. : I see where it could be extensively
used -in a commercial, way, -as an assistant to stenograph¬
ers. I believe I could use it.
My magazine is now published with regularity, ten
days ahead of date. THE CIRCULATION IS VERY LARGE and far
reaching, and is growing very rapridly.
Yours ^very truly,
J'Q'&uJk tpffrrrvoevi,
tyU a** .
I would like . to see your publication regularly, and :if
agreeable will Ex. with you.
[ATTACHMENT]
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Mr, Prank Harr ts on,
Melrose, Masso '
Dear Sirs
I have your oosjuanioation of the 3.5th, m
viiat to make of .it, The article I wrote for The Ei
eer sometime a, .to in regard to the phonograph way wr
to interest our readers,, w.i thou ary thought of fc'ar
Jndireo tlj^ iVom any source, A copy of tins art te.1 <t
in the same manner that it -me sent to a number <>■• *
periodicals, simply as a clipping which mt.ent by c*i
Electrical Engineer does rot print rend a r 1 -• -<
money, advertising or promises to buy a K,
of the pap**, and to tall you the truth w«s have no
paper or publisher that does.
Your latter therefore has no particular in
except to keep on file aa a written evidence of your
Very tru^y yours
:b er
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got himself thought find spoken of tho
world over ns tlio grentost of inventors,
/ 01111 few persons have thought to think
upon-whnt thin so-toworing reputation
' is hosed What in' reality has this in¬
ventor invented otlior than tl.nt wonder¬
ful toy— the Phonograph ? ■
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illiterate in
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anonymous writer, whose
reply was no reply indeed, but a sort of
hodge-podge of vague generalities ns to
Mr. Ellison’s greatness and the glory it
roilects upon the country at largo. Wo
again ask, “ What lias Mr. Edison in-
vented besides the remunerative Phono-. I
graph? By What processes I, as lie a 1
tamed to such greatness— who is li
press ngent?”
Why lias Mr. Edison sold his entire in
lerest m the phonograph? The "Wizard1
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“ground lloor" of all his successful in¬
ventions. Ho sold the patents of the
phonograph for a 'fortune; yet he was a
r£,T\tor,ir th° p|,0,i°s”iph
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i eiral, ,r°XI n''?° tllolr 8loclt for that of
What are tho stooklioldors in the ninny
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We know what E<lison is doing with
his million dollnrsof cnsli received for all
ofliisrights, titleand intorestin tho Phon¬
ograph. Ho lives one mile and a half
the etlltor’s humble abode in regal
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Thomas A. Edison, Esq. ,
-RECEIVE
Ogden, N. J. AUG 2 7 3091
Dear Mr. Edison:- Ans d - - - jg
I think you will be interested in the
marked matter on the enclosed Review, therefore I
forward it to the wilds of New Jersey.
Did your waste basket catch that inter¬
view I sent out two or three weeks ago?
Very sincerely yours, ■»
(Enclosure)
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My Dear Mr. Edison:- \^j _ \
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The enclosed clipping from the “Evening Post,"
of this date, leads me to the conclusion that you
have accomplished what you and I talked about two
or three years ago. A cut of your plan I had made
then, but it has never been used. May not the
Electrical Review be privileged to bring the matter j
out fully after waiting these several years ?
Without boasting permit me to say that we have
on our staff, in Mr. Robert H. Read, the best elec¬
trical writer of the day, and if you can spare an ■
hour or half an hour, we could secure data for a
brilliant presentation of your latest work, and we
should take pleasure in illustrating graphically and •!
clearly, all cuts to be made at our own expense, un- !
less you should desire them afterwards. . j
Kindly let me hear from you and very much j
oblige, j
Yours very sincerely, I
KECEIV£
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Be.r Sir:-
•A Decennial Number of the Electrical Review,
celebrating the end of its tenth year of publicatibn,
will be issued February 20th, 1892, r
This number will be of particular historic and
prophetic value, and we desire your co-operation. Will
you kindly send^u^-ncij later than January 5th, earlier if
convenient, your^pnoiograph with comments relating to
electrical work for publication in the Review, It is
our desire to present the views of a few of the most
eminent men in this field, and while the line of thought
is left for you to decide, we would deem it a favor if
you would give the Review your views on the following:
Future of the Incandescent lamp.
Your new Street Railway System,
Electrical Treatment of Magnetic Iron !
Ore, j
Very respectfully yours,
^Editor.
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Mew York Pee. 26th. 91
i fir. -At the "or Id1 ;
lanqust, (ip. Depew , in the course
-l.ni.d -o t..e^ tremendous progress tnat has been -made- in electrical -4~t
..inc.. t..« d-./s of ihc ecnbennial I'-xalbition. He mentioned the fact that at
■let tins*, tue only evidence of * practical knowledge of the use of electricity was th*
ires overhead, whereas, in 93 at the Chicago Fair, there will be a building twice ias
l* aS thS 3°0per Infetitats* devoted to electrical apparatus exclusively , and nearly ai:
is work of one man, meaning yourself.
The Editor ^f the Mew York World has asked me to make Mr. Depwe's re-
.ark the text of answer 1.1 n!». t.o bo toi hHshed in the World of Sunday. I write at his
'quest, to ask you-if you can snare the time for the purpose,- to send me 'a line makin,
appointment for. me to call on you.
I have had the pleasyre of meeting you, occasionally at the »e 11 owe raft Club
d elsewhere, at dinner. I should take great interest in preparing such an artic{e as.
it which The World proposrs.
Yours very truly,
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Thomas Maguire, Esq.,
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Ofa. ^ ^895 December 31st, 1891.
Edison laboratory, Orange, N. J. /'
Dear Sir:--
I beg 1 /ou herewith, letter from Chas.
W. Price, of the Eleotrioal under date December 30th,
requesting one of Mr. Edisoi nt photographs. Please give
3 matter your attentii
Yours truly ,
Enc. F. 29.
Private Secretary.
[ENCLOSURE]
Very glad to receive your letter. I heard
from your other signature that Mr. Edison would con¬
sider the matter next week . I think if you will- let
him know that it is on occasion in whiSh;he should . -
certainly be represented, the end t)t t«(n. years' elec¬
trical progress, that he will do sobbing to aid -the
Rflviflw in making the story complete and synmetri cal. _
I leave Jan. 6 to be abBent two or three weeks and-
would like to know about the matter before that time.
It will not be necessary, however, for the article
to be written until the latter part of January, if
that will be any convenience. We should have it in
■the office, however, not later than Feb. 1st. -We-
would like, at the first moment possible , one of Mr,
Edison's recent photographs.
Thanking, you for your kind interest, I remain.
Very sincerely yours.
1891. Edison, T. A. - Employment (D-91-11)
This folder contains correspondence from or about employees and
former or prospective employees. Included are Edison’s handwritten notes
regarding various employees, requests by former employees for letters of
recommendation, and letters about other personnel matters.
Approximately 20 percent of the documents have been filmed. The
following categories of documents have not been filmed: routine requests for
employment at the West Orange laboratory or company shops; routine letters
of recommendations on behalf of prospective employees; interoffice notes
relating to salaries and disposition of checks; correspondence regarding the
estate of Frank McGowan, a former Edison employee; duplicate copies of
selected documents.
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1891. Edison, T. A. - Family (D-91-12)
This folder contains correspondence and other documents by and about
Edison’s family. Some of the documents concern the monthly stipend paid by
Edison to Margaret Stilwell, his former mother-in-law. Other items pertain
to the mental and physical health of Edison’s aged father, Samuel. Included
also are a few letters by Thomas A. Edison, Jr., written from boarding school,
and requests from various relatives for money or personal favors.
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selected material.
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A. 0, Tate, Esq,,
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Orange, New Jersey,
Dear Sir: /
Your favor of the 30th. ult „ enclosing letter received
by Mr. Edison from Mr. James H. White L Port Huron, Michigan, in
regard to the forclosure of a mortga^4 is duly received.
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GKO. M. EDISON,
Real Estate, Insurance,
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The management of the Symphony Orchestra of New York has
in contemplation a series of four Subscription Symphony concerts at
Music Hall, Orange, during the coming winter.
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number of advance subscriptions is received from the music lovers of
Orange and vicinity . Believing that you are interested in musical
events of this character , X tahe the liberty of requesting your sub¬
scription and the names of your friends in Orange who would be lihely
to subscribe to the concerts. The cost of a subscription tichet, in¬
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subscriptions are received. The dates have not yet been selected, but
it is probable that the concerts will occur in the months of December,
January, February, and March.1
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Sept. 28, 1891.
Mr. Thomas A. Edison,
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Orange, II. J.
Dear Sir:
With your permission, we will be very
much pleased to name one of these' flowers
for. Mrs. Edison. ■
In the box of flowers sent, vie have
marked the one we prpose to name for
Mrs. Edison.
I send you by express, to-day,
charges prepaid, a box of Begonia flowers,
which please accept with my compliments.
Of the beauty of these flowers, you
can judge by the samples sent, but the re¬
markable thing about them is that they can
be grown in almost any position in the/-
garden, the same as geraniums or colics,
and as they bloom continuously from June
until frost cuts them down in the fall,
their effectiveness for decorative gar¬
dening purposes can not be exaggerated.
These beautiful flowers (and they are
truly remarkable), are the result of the
work of a specialist, Mr. Thomas Griffin,
of Westbury, Long Island, who has devoted .
several years to their hybridization and
culture, and he is now ready to introduce
them to the gardening world. He has a sol¬
id acre of them growing on Long Island,
and I do not believe the country nan pro¬
duce a floral display to equal it.
The fLowers sent you are considerably
smaller than they have been, on account of
the long continued hot and dry weather, but
under favorable conditions, the plants
will produce flowers that will average
sx% inches.
Yours respectfully,
P.S.--4fyou consent that we shall
use her name in this connection, I
assure you that it will not be used for
advertising purposes, or in any way
objectionable to you.
J.W.E.
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Walter Damrosch, Conductor.
Office, music hall,
Oct 3rd, 1861
Mr. A. D. Tate', Private Sec. ,
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Allow me to thank you for your kind favor of: the 2nd
Inst. The subscriptions for the series of concerts in Orange are
coming in very promisingly, and there is no doubt whatever but that the
requisite number of advance subscriptions will be received; therefore,
will you kindly ask Mrs. Edis'on how many subscription seats she would
Tike, and in what part of the Hall ? I will then select seats as
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1891. Edison, T. A. - Real Estate (D-91-13)
This folder contains correspondence relating to the purchase and sale
of land and buildings, along with other documents pertaining to Edison’s real
estate holdings. Included are numerous letters about Edison’s mortgage on
the Chandler property in Newark, N. J., and the foreclosure suit brought
against that property. There are also letters concerning the taxes due on
Edison s Silver Lake property and correspondence regarding old deeds to land
at Menlo Park. Many of the letters are by Edison’s attorney, Sherburne B.
Approximately 40 percent of the documents have been filmed. The
following categories of documents have not been filmed: routine letters from
individuals wanting to buy or sell land and buildings.
EATON 8, LEWIS
/Y't/r/fr:7''yiwjiuv.vr_ BUILDUP,
✓J&5WL Feb. 20. 1891.
A.O Tate, Esq.
Edisoi
Private Secretary,
's Laboratory,
Ofcange, M . j .
. 1 beSt o acknowledge receipt of your favor of
the I7th mat., enclosing noticefrom the Clerk of the Court of
Chancery, Trenton, Mew Jersey, and Summons regarding foreclosure
proceedings brought by the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New
York against John P. Chandler e't al, in regard to certain property
upon which Mr, Edison holds a/mortgage of $1,000. The bond and
mortgage of Mary S. Chandlev which you enclosed were duly received.
I beg/to state that this matter
my immediate attention. /
Very truly yours,
/Zvyj* vaefoaptvwmaxM buiiding* 3
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EATON & LEWIS
S.B. EATON
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Thomas A. Edison, Esq.
Orange, N. J.,
Dear Sir:-
Be Mary s. Chandler Mort6,6, for *1,000. Referring
«o year letter ,h, lnh. ln.t„ .elation mon.
'■** “ P"0,,0rty in "”*«• l* »««« »« one los ed . „f r„.-
olcor. from Rrederio* 0. Bora,™, aolloitor for Xh. Mu,.! u„
Inauranoe 0.op.„» of Re. for!, .. have had Mj._
Burnhon, and flM the facta to a, a. folio..: .
The Mutual J,lf. Insurance Oo, hold a prior mortg.g.
for #6,000., a, 6 per .eat, latere.,, 0. ,he property, ^
.hie addition, via.; priviieg..p
Their Mortgage i. dated Keener 29, h„ 1888, - .M the latere.,
thereon is Paid to June 29, 1890, leaving dsfml, fop ^
month., inter..,, ending ^ ^ ^
0O"Pa", h“ *“» foreoloaur, suit ss4„.t Jolu,
0. Chandler and hi. .if., „„ heir, a, i.., „
case may be.
Mr. Burhham has given us to understand that, if you wish,
for the purpose of protecting your interests, to foreclose your
mortgage and take possession of the property subject to The Mutual
Life mortgage, they will suspend their action, and give you an op¬
portunity so to do. In this event, we understand that, by paying
up the interest in arrears and the interest as it falls due, you
would have no further trouble in the matter.
In such event, you would own the property, and as a lien
on the property The Mutual Life mortgage would remain indefinitely,
subject to your right to pay it off at will, and to their right
to demand payment at will. Of coirae you would have t o pay the
foreclosure expenses, say $50 .'more or less.
This method ofl settlement would require no ready
money except for interest, and after you have omce obtained, possess-
ion of the property you could dispose of it on any terms that you
Pleased, subject to The Mutual Lite mortgage.
Please instruct me what you wish done, and oblige,
Very truly yours,
[ENCLOSURE]
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EDISON GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
HARRISON N.J.
A. 0. Tate, Esq., Private Secy,
Orange, N.J.
Dear Sir:-
I return papers r yarding the Chandler property in
Newark*
I find myself unable to do anything in the mat, ter.
If ohe property is worth £21, 000. I do not see how Mfc. Edison
can suffer any loss.
[ENCLOSURE]
/V<“
M r. Edison,- .f
Referring to the attached from Major Eaton
in reCard to the Chandler property, Mr. DouClas does not want to
GO into this. Do you vri sh any reply made t.o. Major Eaton's letter?
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[ENCLOSURE]
EATON a LEWIS
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Thomas A. Edison, Esq,,
Orange, N. J, ,
Dear Sir:-
Re Mary S. Chandler Mortgage. In reply to your fa¬
vor of the 2nd. inst. making certain enquiries with respect to
the Chandler house in Newark, I nave procured the following
inf ormation: -
(1) Mr. White, the New Jersey appraiser, for the
Mutual Life Insurance Co., says that the hous^isworth $11,000.
(2) Mr. Burnham, the attorney ,.ffcr the Mutual Life
thinks that the house has never been rented, unless it is now rent¬
ed to a man who appeared to have an interest in the house stt the
time the loan was made, and was instrumental in procuring the
loan, Mr. White said that this man's name was Wann; but Mr.
Burnharn said it was Murray, and that he claimed to be acquainted
with you,
(3) The house is in a good locality, one block and a
half from Broad Street, in the heart of the City. Most of the
occupants of the houses in that neighborhood, own them, for
[ENCLOSURE]
wninh reason Mt. Burnham said he « ould not state, the .average rent.
As a result of this morning's oonversation, I ha/ e two
propositions for protecting your interests:-
(1) To foreclose your mortgage as proposed in si other
letter,
(2) To allow the Mutual life to proceed with their fore¬
closure, and at the se le for you to buy it in at a figure that
"HI caver their $6,000. mortgage, your mortgage and the expenses
of the sale, a total of about $7,200. If anyone bids over you,
you will then get your $1,000. If you buy in. the property,
then Mr. White says the, Mutua^ life Company will make you a loan
of $6,000., on same teZZyji/ you wish. The advantage of the
latter course, is that, their mortgage covers an alleyway in the
rear, which is not included in your mortgage; So if they were!.-
to foreclose, and you were to buy at the sale, you would acquire
the additional right which you would not acquire fromf oreclos ing
your own mortgage. With regard to the expense, either of fore¬
closing, yourself, or buying in at the foreclosure sale, it will
be about the same. I think I told you it might be $50. to $60.
[ENCLOSURE]
On further convention wiyh Mr. Burnham, I find it will be more.
He states that the expense in the Mutual Lif eforclosurev.will be
about*200.,net more. He thinks your forclosure would be the same,
3f they suspended their forclosure now to oblige you, they would
expect you to pay their costs to date, which are small.
The reason why the Mutual life wishes to get rid of this
mortgage is because the mortgagor does not pay his interest. If you
took the property you might have the same trouble.
Trusting that this will give you a fair understanding of
the matter,
Very yruly yours,
EATON a LEWIS
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:-
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■ylhv'&vr/fy^ June 19. 1891 .
In looking over a trunk of old papers left in my custody
when the Machine Works moved from Dey Street, I find two papers,
which I enclose herewith. One of these papers appears to be a
Sheriff's Deed to Charles Batchelor of certain lands in Menlo Park,
and the other paper appears to be a proposed Deed to you by Mr.
Batchelor and wife of the same property.
The first of these, namely the Sheriff's deed appears to
be an original document, but does not seem to have been recorded.
The other document, namely the proposed conveyance by Mr. Batchelor
and wife to yourself, has not been executed.
If I can serve you in any way in connection with these
documents, please command me.
Very “truly yours,
(0 ■ 'ij /.vr"^|
EATON a LEWIS '
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A. 0. Tate, Esq., Private Secretary.
Dear Sir:
^or:?:rst*rSH/°rnSv°°T!?"“ « »• ££■£*•
rei erred to in your favor of the 23rd inst.
««■ **>»* one “LI *i‘ha ** f°-Se,000
would amount perhaps to $140. TTfus 11 ?re exPori£es
iSf5So: sxxzr °r “"“~r ■irss.rLS4
less, Mr. ?;dison^stsecSritvr’w^^nSS.n0 m°re thBn $0»500 «n°™ °r .
then will be toosue ^rs handle r @ ,^lped °^t* Hls onll' redress
for.e .1,. ,MemM .eai„.t IS pLpSL! ' “ "°r “** ““
«u ..".fiLinrs tZ$LmTt?Z,V» *•«>. «•
vided Mr. Edison appears in the forea? » th Edlson mortgage, pro-
Mr. Edisonwas sefVed in the fore^n! Proceedings. No doubt
was or not, he ought to appear 1 prooMil»«-' Whether me
appear for him in thefe^nr Mr' EdiSOn should direot me to
p" t.«.s S ;;«£:• f ■; °;?.ri,r:riS”?' r,r ^ °f
self on foreclosure he should bld/or the property it-
regard. But my impression is from y^lon ^£^0^ ' *’1 that
care to bid. your setter that ho does not
Hoping the above will be satisfactory, I remain,
EATON a LEWIS
•yKcte'&er/Z.
- J une_ 26.,_ 18 91.
Thomas A, Edison, Esq,,
Orange, New Jersey,
Dear Sir: /
/
I am in receipt of your favor of the 24th, inst.., return¬
ing the Sheriff *s Deed to Charle/Batohelor of certain lands in
Menlo Park and also the proposed deed to yourself by Mr. Batchelor
and wife of the same property,
I have taken step/to have the latter deed executed by
Mr. Batchelor and his wif^, and will give the matter attention un¬
til the same oan be completed.
Very truly yours ,
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EATON a LEWIS
/
4-4- &'/Vf/.e^Z$Z(Ce6{zaxsati BUILDING)
~/l,eu/&cw&. -Aug-.- 29,-189-1-.-
Dear Mr. iate:
Your letter of yesterday is at hand with the Deed of
Watchung Avenue to the Township of West Orange.
You add a note to your letter saying that you had
instructed the Y/orks to make me a copy of the Mortgage.
This is the first I have heard of any mortgage of
this sort. Our Mr. Hobson says he asked you- if there was any
mortgage on this property and that you said there was not any.
Auite likely the mortgage does not cover this highway. When I get
the mortgage from the Works, I shall find out just what the facts
Very truly yours,
S?
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.yPety^/w/y Sept . 1,
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I beg to enclose herewith the fol-
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Llewellyn Park , Orange, N. J.
Dear Sir:
Re Menlo Park Lots
lowing papers:
(a) Deed of Andrew J. Disbrow, Sheriff of Middlesex Co.
N. J., to .Olrarles Batchelor, dated November 10, .1884, recorded
in the County of Middlesex in Book 242 of Deeds on page 464;
(b) Bargain and Sale Deed from Charles Batchelor and
his Wife, to Thomas A. Edison, dated June 30, 1891, and
Rosi
recorded in Middlesex County on July 6th, 1891 in Book 242 of Deeds
on page 469.
The property described in the above deed are lots 1 in
Block C, and 1 to 20 inclusive in Block L and 8 to 15 inclusive in
Block M on a "Map of the Menlo Park Homestead Association on New
Jersey Railroad.
You will remember that X found these deeds among a
lot of old papers of yours sent to me from Dey Street. I have had
them recorded at your request .
Very truly yours,
— -
EATON a LEWIS
'4- &'/wer.a(;3$kee6(n
.ylQs/.fyvT/{y Oct . 10, 1891 .
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Dear Sir:
Re Chandler Mortgage at Newark owned by you. Re¬
ferring to Mr. Tate's favor of the 3rd inst., I have to say that
this property will be sold under the foreclosure proceedings of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company, on the 27th inst. at 2 P. M. at the
Newaric Court House. We are looking after the proceedings so as to
secure what wo can on your second mortgage, in case the property
brings more than the amount of the first mortgage.
^£CEIV££)
OCT 1 A i$c)i
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~/kt ut>Qfc/ytey Nov, so, 1891
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
Orange, N, J.
Dear Sir:
; El Vi?
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tins’ d-
Re Chandler Mortgage. The property of the late Mrs.
Chandler has been sold under mortgage foreclosure for $7,500.
The claim of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. is $6,624.99
and the Sheriff's fees are $94.50, a total of $6,719.49. This
leaves a surplus of $780.51 for which we wish to apply, in your
interest. Will you please send us your bond and mortgage for the
purpose of making such application.
fildUy -
Thomas A. Edison, Esq.,
/d" ’ S/*y ( EDISON BUILDING)
^/^'(^y^„Deq ... .2nd, ...1891 .
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Orange, 11. J.
Re Chandler Mortgage. I befe to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of the 1st inst., enclosing the Mary S. Chandler
bond and mortgage for One thousand do liars.
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